What Technology Wants
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| Author | Kevin Kelly |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Culture, Human, Life, Technology |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 2010 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 416 |
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What Technology Wants is a 2010 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly focused on technology as an extension of life.
Summary
[edit | edit source]The opening chapter of What Technology Wants, entitled "My Question", chronicles an early period in the author's life and conveys a sense of how he went from being a nomadic traveler with few possessions to a co-founder of Wired.[1][2] The book invokes a giant force – the technium – which is "the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us".[3][4]
In November 2014, Kelly gave a SALT talk (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) for the Long Now Foundation titled "Technium Unbound",[5] where he explained and expanded upon the ideas from his books What Technology Wants and Out of Control.
Criticism
[edit | edit source]Kelly's book has been criticized for espousing a teleological view of biological evolution that is rejected by some scientists, and for promoting a "bizarre neo-mystical progressivism" (by Jerry Coyne).[3]
Editions
[edit | edit source]- Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. New York, Viking Press, October 14, 2010, hardcover, 416 pages. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Citia iOS iPad Edition, What Technology Wants, released May 2012 by Semi-Linear, Inc.
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Kelly, K. (2010). What Technology Wants pp. 1-17. New York: Penguin Group.
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- ^ Technium Unbound
External links
[edit | edit source]- What Technology Wants The Technium.
- Video: Kevin Kelly on what technology wants November 30, 2010, TEDx Amsterdam.