''What Technology Wants'' is a 2010
nonfiction
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book by
Kevin Kelly focused on
technology
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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''. The book invokes a giant force – the ''technium'' – which is "the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us".
In November 2014, Kelly gave a SALT talk (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) for the
Long Now Foundation titled "Technium Unbound",
Technium Unbound
/ref> 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
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that is rejected by some scientists, and for promoting a "bizarre neo-mystical progressivism" (by Jerry Coyne).
Editions
* Kevin Kelly. ''What Technology Wants''. New York
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, Viking Press
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, October 14, 2010, hardcover, 416 pages.
* Citia iOS iPad Edition, ''What Technology Wants'', released May 2012 by Semi-Linear, Inc.
See also
* '' Out of Control''
* Superorganism
References
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External links
''What Technology Wants''
The Technium.
Video: Kevin Kelly on what technology wants
November 30, 2010, TEDx
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Amsterdam.
2010 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Penguin Books books
Technology books