Why You Should Read “The Inevitable” by Kevin Kelly

“Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future”

Fahri Karakas
Predict
Published in
16 min readDec 13, 2022

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I am taking Month to Master challenge with Michael Simmons this month. As part of the daily calls, we are asked to choose a book or resource we want to deeply dive into. We immerse ourselves to that book and extract top insights and deep learning from that book in about an hour. We then summarize and distil what we learned, and share our best learning on social media. Yesterday, I have read “The Inevitable” by Kevin Kelly, and I will summarize my insights and learning with you in this post.

Kevin Kelly provides a holistic map of the inevitable technological changes and trends that will drive our future in the next 30 years. Kelly reviews these 12 tech trends in 12 chapters:

Image Credit: http://innovationcrafting.blogspot.com/2016/10/kevin-kellys-inevitable-12.html

Kelly reviews these forces, depicts the big picture, and describes how these larger forces will revolutionise how we work, learn, study, create value, and collaborate with each other. Here are some of the insights I have learned from Kelly:

  • Instead of utopia or dystopia, we can perhaps define the future as “protopia”, a state of…

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Fahri Karakas
Predict

Associate Professor in Business & Leadership at University of East Anglia. Passionate about doodling, imagination, and creativity. Author of Self-Making Studio.