Next week, Spark will feature an interview with Kevin Kelly. Kevin is currently senior maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded the popular technology magazine, and is also an author and blogger. His new book, What Technology Wants, is due out in October 2010.
We wanted to get Kevin’s take on how important play is to the character of the web. Nora and Kevin also talked about technology more broadly, and the hope is we’ll be able air some of those questions and answers in future episodes.
A shorter version of this interview will air on Spark 108, but you can hear the full, uncut interview below, or download the MP3. [runs 41:40]
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original photo by /ivan
I like how the framing of this photo makes Kevin looks as though he's levitating.
Oops! the MP3 version of the full interview with Kevin Kelly is missing
I am old school if you will and prefer downloading the MP3 for my generic player.
Hope to find it soon thanks.
Should be fixed now. Thanks.
http://podcast.cbc.ca/spark/plus-spark_20100326_kevinkelly.mp3
Amazing interview, as always. And thanks for the long-form interview being posted!
I guess the thing that stuck in my mind the most (its been a few hours since I listened) is the idea that we are now defined more by what we don't do than what we do.
I think about this professionally: I will learn and support any Free/Libre or Open Source Software (FLOSS), but don't really have brand loyalty. I find writing resumes hard as I don't define myself that way. I use Linux today, and could switch tomorrow. I refuse to "own" or support Microsoft or Apple products, so that is more what I don't do than do.
For transportation I don't own a car or have a drivers license.
I switched my home phone service last year — I wanted it to NOT be from either a traditional phone or cable company (I chose TekSavvy — reseller, but at least one step further away from phone/cable company). This year I hope to drop cable (I'm not the only one in the house), and in good time since the dishonest broadcasters seemed to have won their fee for mandatory carriage at the CRTC.
I hadn't thought about this before, but I think I agree that I'm defined more as a person by what I don't do than what I do.
Between me and my husband we’ve owned more MP3 players over the years than I can count, including Sansas, iRivers, iPods (classic & touch), the Ibiza Rhapsody, etc. But, the last few years I’ve settled down to one line of players. Why? Because I was happy to discover how well-designed and fun to use the underappreciated (and widely mocked) Zunes are.