What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly's 2010 book treating technology as an extension of life, a global system he calls the technium.
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Technology as life, The technium, My question
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- Kelly treats technology as an extension of life.
- He names the whole system of technology around us "the technium".
- The opening chapter tells how he went from a nomadic traveller with few possessions to a co-founder of Wired.
Why it matters
- It sets out the idea of the technium, which Kelly expanded in a 2014 Long Now Foundation talk, "Technium Unbound".
Key facts
- Author
- Kevin Kelly1
- Published
- 14 Oct 2010, by Viking, New York; 416 pages1
- iPad edition
- Released in May 2012 by Semi-Linear1
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Criticism
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Jerry Coyne1
Criticised its teleological view of evolution as "bizarre neo-mystical progressivism".
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