What Technology Wants
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| Author | Kevin Kelly |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Culture, Human, Life, Technology |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 2010 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 978-0-670-02215-1 |
What Technology Wants is a 2010 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly focused on technology as an extension of life.
Summary
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]
What Technology Wants focuses on human-technology relations and argues for technology as the emerging seventh kingdom of life on earth.[3] The book invokes a giant force – the technium – which is "the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us".[4]
Kevin Kelly gave a SALT talk (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) for the Long Now Foundation in November 2014 titled “Technium Unbound”, where he explained and expanded upon the ideas from his books “What Technology Wants” and “Out of Control”.
Criticism
Kelly's book has been criticized for espousing a teleological view of biological evolution that is rejected by scientists, and for promoting a "bizarre neo-mystical progressivism."[4]
Editions
- Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. New York, Viking Press, October 14, 2010, hardcover, 416 pages. ISBN 978-0-670-02215-1
- Citia iOS iPad Edition, What Technology Wants, released May 2012 by Semi-Linear, Inc.
See also
References
- ↑ Kelly, K. (2010). What Technology Wants pp. 1-17. New York: Penguin Group.
- ↑ Jennifer Pollock. Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly on 'What Technology Wants' , 7x7.com, October 24, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
- ↑ The seventh kingdom of life, Edge Foundation, Inc., July 19, 2007. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
- 1 2 Jerry A. Coyne. Better All the Time, The New York Times Book Review, November 5, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2011.
External links
- What Technology Wants The Technium.
- What Technology Wants Penguin Group.
- Video: Kevin Kelly on what technology wants November 30, 2010, TEDx Amsterdam.
- Roberts, Russ (November 29, 2010). "Kelly on Technology and What Technology Wants". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.