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Book by Kevin Kelly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What Technology Wants is a 2010 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly focused on technology as an extension of life.
 First edition | |
| Author | Kevin Kelly |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Culture, Human, Life, Technology |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 2010 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 978-0-670-02215-1 |
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.
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]
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