Notes on The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

I heard about The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, the latest book from Kevin Kelly, on Tim Ferriss's podcast.

It reminded me of Diamandis's book Bold, which I had read last year and enjoyed. This book similarly went over a lot of current technological trends and advances and how they will "inevitably" play out at a high level (the details are subject to change). I enjoyed the little descriptions in each chapter of "a day in your life" in the future.


Intro
Shift to processes from products
Services instead of finished products

1 becoming
Existence is chiefly maintenance 
Second law of thermodynamics 
Upgrade arms race 
Will remain endless newbies

2 codifying
Distributed intelligence
Adding net and data to everything
Deep learning, gpu
Human job is to give robot jobs
Success will be to whoever works best with robots 

3 flowing
Internet all about copying
Now all about flows and streams
Expect real-time results for everything
Just in time purchasing
Generative attributes cause people to pay for free stuff
Liquidity
Experiences
Personalization
Support, manuals
Immediacy
Patronage
Data and products changing from fixidity to fluidity
Stages of flow
Fixed, rare
Ubiquitous, commoditized
Flowing, sharing: breaking apart the product
Opening, becoming: audience is artist

4 screening
Screens over paper
Networked books
Screens on all objects

5 accessing
Instant borrowing
Dematerialization
Servicizing. X as a service. 
Realtime on demand
Rental model
Decentralization, blockchain
Platform synergy
Clouds

6 sharing
Socialism

7 filtering
Personalization
Technology will create things
People will create experiences

8 remixing
User content 

9 interacting
 VR and AR

10 tracking
Quantified self

11 questioning
Searches, queries

12 beginning
Singularity

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