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What Technology Wants

Book by Kevin Kelly

Summary

Book by Kevin Kelly

Field	Value
name	What Technology Wants
image	What Technology Wants, Book Cover Art.jpg
caption	First edition
author	Kevin Kelly
language	English
subjects	Culture, Human, Life, Technology
publisher	Viking Press
release_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. 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", 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" (by Jerry Coyne).

Editions

Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. New York, Viking Press, October 14, 2010, hardcover, 416 pages.
Citia iOS iPad Edition, What Technology Wants, released May 2012 by Semi-Linear, Inc.

References

Kelly, K. (2010). ''What Technology Wants'' pp. 1-17. New York: Penguin Group.
(2010-10-24). "Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly on 'What Technology Wants'".
[[Jerry Coyne]]. (November 5, 2010). "Better All the Time".
Susan Jane Gilman. (October 26, 2010). "'What Technology Wants' Tracks The Tech Evolution".
[http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/nov/12/technium-unbound/ Technium Unbound]

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