What Technology Wants
{{short description|Book by Kevin Kelly}}
{{Infobox book
| 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.Kelly, K. (2010). What Technology Wants pp. 1-17. New York: Penguin Group.{{Cite web|url=https://www.7x7.com/wired-co-founder-kevin-kelly-on-what-technology-wants-1779530903.html|title=Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly on 'What Technology Wants'|date=2010-10-24|website=7x7 Bay Area|language=en|access-date=2019-12-19}} The book invokes a giant force – the technium – which is "the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us".{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/books/review/Coyne-t.html|title=Better All the Time|author=Jerry Coyne|website=The New York Times|date=November 5, 2010|accessdate=December 18, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130215636|title='What Technology Wants' Tracks The Tech Evolution|author=Susan Jane Gilman|website=NPR|date=October 26, 2010|accessdate=December 18, 2019}}
In November 2014, Kelly gave a SALT talk (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) for the Long Now Foundation titled "Technium Unbound",[http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/nov/12/technium-unbound/ 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. {{ISBN|978-0-670-02215-1}}
- Citia iOS iPad Edition, What Technology Wants, released May 2012 by Semi-Linear, Inc.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/01/what_technology.php What Technology Wants] The Technium.
- [http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2009/video-kevin-kelly-on-what-technology-wants/ Video: Kevin Kelly on what technology wants] November 30, 2010, TEDx Amsterdam.
Category:2010 non-fiction books