Kevin Kelly

We're just helping it replicate.

When a beaver makes a dam and birds make nests, those are technologies in a certain sense.

They're outputs of the mind.

And so I see the cosmic arc of the story of technology, which begins with the Big Bang and self-organizing systems and elements and stars.

And planets that have a sufficient, just right amount of gravity and water and other things that this most remarkable molecule, DNA, can evolve out of.

And then DNA can self-replicate until we have minds.

And there are many minds.

And out of the minds come other possible forms that can't be done with just water-based technology.

And so I'm imagining that there's technology in other planets throughout the galaxy somewhere, and that they're all kind of following this thing of making more and more possibilities.

And I think that's what the big story in the end about what technology brings to the universe, which is increasing possible ways of being, increasing possible forms, increasing possible ways of living.

Each one of those are improbable.

So that's the point of it.

The most universe is going towards heat death is the probable outcome, flat, uniform, gray, heat death.

These strands of the improbable, which are galaxies and stars and elements and planets and minds and technology.

And it's all improbable and self-maintaining.

It keeps making things more and more improbable as long as it keeps going.

And that's the infinite game that we're involved in, is trying to keep the game going, making as many possibilities as possible.

And for us humans, for me, to equip every person born with the tools, water, and healthcare, they would need to realize...

They're unique, improbable gifts to the world.

The more improbable you are, the more likely you're authentic to what it is that you can do.