7.4 /10 1 Votes
Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 978-0-670-02215-1 Genre Non-fiction | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date 2010 Pages 416 Originally published 2010 Page count 416 Publisher Viking Press | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects Culture, Human, Life, Technology Similar Kevin Kelly books, Non-fiction books, Technology books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What Technology Wants is a 2010 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly focused on technology as an extension of life.
Contents
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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.
What Technology Wants focuses on human-technology relations and argues for technology as the emerging seventh kingdom of life on earth. The book invokes a giant force – the technium – which is "the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us".
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 some scientists, and for promoting a "bizarre neo-mystical progressivism."