Kevin Kelly

But if you can't get to it in a couple steps from today, then it's not really useful.

So like other things, there's an art to the imagination to being actually valuable to people is constrained by how many steps away you are.

It will take someone to get there.

So if only you can arrive at that place, it's not worth anything.

You have to get other people there either to see it in person

inhabit it with you, like in the story, to actually be able to replicate it in terms of making something, whatever it is, there's an art to this imagination because you can't be too far away because then it's not useful to anybody.

You have to have this adjacent possible that people talk about.

You want it to be adjacent, but not so distant that while it may be true someday or it may be appreciated 100 years from now, it'd be a lot more useful if you could do something that was more adjacent.

I think...

Traditional cultures are full of rites of passage.

I have three kids now, grown young adults, and one of the things I know about kids, what I learned, was that they crave, when they're young especially, they crave reliability,

stability.

They rely on having something stable as they invent themselves.

They're in the process from the moment they're born to inventing themselves in a very literal sense of developing their personalities.

And that is a very uncertain process.

It's very scary.

They don't know what it means to be human.

They don't know what it means to be a kid.

They don't know what's

ordinary or extraordinary.