Rule Breaker Investing Let’s Talk About the Future in 2026 with Kevin Kelly
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Feb 4, 2026 
Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired and longtime tech futurist, guides a patient, long-arc view of technology. He talks about AI as day one and specialized AIs, why robots lag language models, the rising U.S.-China duopoly, and why optimism and practical testing matter. Short takes on transparency, sci-fi probes, and working at unnamed frontiers round out the conversation.
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Choose Optimism As A Strategy
- Choose optimism as a stance and actively look for the small percentage of improvement that compounds into civilization.
- Seek and promote the slow, often invisible gains that prevent disasters and create long-term progress.
Radical Transparency Could Benefit Society
- Kevin argues for radical transparency: public federal tax contributions and even public DNA could benefit society.
- He believes medical and civic gains outweigh many privacy concerns if protections exist.
Probes Seek Ideas, Not Resources
- Kevin speculates advanced interstellar probes would briefly visit planets to harvest novel ideas, then depart because everything else is reproducible.
- He uses this to propose a solution to the Fermi paradox: probes skimming then leaving when nothing novel appears.
