Author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future Interview starts at 18:40 and ends at 43:00 “All the visions that most people have of the future are all dystopian, and they’re afraid. They’re worried. And yet the reality, the scientific evidence is that we are much better off today. Any of your listeners are 10 times better off than 10 or 20 years ago. ” News “Early data suggests Amazon’s Echo Show could be a hit with consumers” by Jonathan Camhi at Business Insider - May 24, 2017 Echo Show - $230 at Amazon.com. Buy two, save $100. Prime Day Insider Guide “The 5 best Amazon Prime Day deals you can actually get right now” by Samantha Gordon at USA Today - June 30, 2017 Interview with Kevin Kelly The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts Samsung Gear VR and Controller Magic Leap Recomendo newsletter Next Week’s Guest Jaimal Yogis, author of All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride, The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing...And Love, and Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!