Kevin Kelly

Profiles technology as an evolving international system with predictable trends, counseling readers on how to prepare themselves and future generations by anticipating and steering their choices toward developing needs. By the author of New Rules for a New Economy.

What Technology Wants

Bernardo van de Schepop

Nelson Zagalo

Kelly é um pensador capaz de colocar em discussão várias perspetivas distintas da ciência, de interrogá-las e extrair delas novas análises, e novas conclusões. O seu livro não é um livro clássico no sentido académico da referenciação exaustiva, mas nem por isso se sente que os dados apresentados não estejam sustentados por estudos de referência, recentes e de reconhecida qualidade....... 

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Jon Noronha

How can a book about technology have such interesting parts about fire and agriculture, and such boring parts about computers and cell phones? He's really into the Amish.

Dated. No discussion of climate crisis. Here's a detailed review on my archive site: 

https://500words.ink/revisiting-what-technology-wants

 when it first came out a decade ago, I would have agreed with every word. It 

 a brilliant work of scholarship that makes connections you might not think about, but which seem obvious when Kelly presents. He has a mind like a spider’s web that catches everything that approaches it. He thinks about technology like nobody else. But, in the last few months, after reading 

 by Rutger Bergman, I’ve seen how trusted scientific research can be revisited, and even revised.

Lee Schneider

Dated. No discussion of climate crisis. Here's a detailed review on my archive site: https://500words.ink/revisiting-what-technology-wants

>If I had read Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants when it first came out a decade ago, I would have agreed with every word. It is a brilliant work of scholarship that makes connections you might not think about, but which seem obvious when Kelly presents. He has a mind like a spider’s web that catches everything that approaches it. He thinks about technology like nobody else. But, in the last few months, after reading The Good Ancestor by Roman Krznaric and Humankind by Rutger Bergman, I’ve seen how trusted scientific research can be revisited, and even revised.

Luca Conti

Bruno Costa Teixeira

Elaine Wherry

Andrew Louis

Simon Lund Larsen

Jimmy Cerone

Steve C

Ryan B Harvey

Oscar von Hauske

Jacob Morse

Rui Zhi Dong

Louis Currie

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potential This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed. This new theory of technology offers three practical lessons: By listening to what technology wants we can better prepare ourselves and our children for the inevitable technologies to come. By adopting the principles of pro-action and engagement, we can steer technologies into their best roles. And by aligning ourselves with the long-term imperatives of this near-living system, we can capture its full gifts. Written in intelligent and accessible language, this is a fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing opportunities in the world and how technology can give our lives greater meaning.

Gareth Kay

Pete Petrash

Frank Meeuwsen

Damian Bannon

Profiles technology as an evolving international system with predictable trends, counseling readers on how to prepare themselves and future generations by anticipating and steering their choices toward developing needs.

What Technology Wants

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