What Technology Wants is a 2010 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly focused on technology as an extension of life.

Summary

In his young adulthood Kevin Kelly spent many years traveling remote parts of the developing world, an experience which helped inform his perspective on what he has coined the technium.

The opening chapter of What Technology Wants entitled My Question chronicles this period in Kelly's life and gives the reader a sense of how Kelly went from a nomadic travelor with little possessions, to becoming the founder of one of the world's most prominent technology publications.

Author focuses on human

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-technology relations and argues for the existence of technology

Technology

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 as the emerging seventh kingdom of life on earth.
What Technology Wants offers the idea that technology is better viewed as one giant force, which Kelly coined the technium and describes as "...a word to designate the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us".

Chapters

1. My Question


2. Inventing Ourselves


3. History of the Seventh Kingdom


4. The Rise of Exotropy


5. Deep Progress


6. Ordained Becoming


7. Convergence


8. Listen to the Technology


9. Choosing the Inevitable


10. The Unabomber Was Right


11. Lessons of Amish Hackers


12. Seeking Conviviality


13. Technology's Trajectories


14. Playing the Infinite Game

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Editions

• Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. New York
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  , Viking Press
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  , October 14, 2010, hardcover, 416 pages. ISBN 9780670022151

See also

• Out of Control
  Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
  Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World is a 1994 book by Kevin Kelly. Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems and chaos theory and it can be seen as a work of...
  
  
• Kevin Kelly
• Technology
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External links

• What Technology Wants The Technium.
• What Technology Wants Penguin Group
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• Video: Kevin Kelly on what technology wants November 30, 2010, TED
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