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What Technology Wants
Book

What Technology Wants

Viking, 2010 plus...

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

In this fascinating book, Kevin Kelly, a co-founder and executive editor of Wired magazine, draws on a broad range of disciplines to make synthesizing observations about the relationship of technology to life. Unlike many contemporary writers, Kelly uses the term “technology” broadly. He isn’t just talking about the newest electronic gadgets; rather, he traces a history that reaches from chipped stone tools to the latest tech toys. Most readers will find some places where Kelly’s argument goes too far or slides past an objection, but anyone who dips into his treatise will find it compellingly written and vastly intriguing. getAbstract recommends this thought-provoking work to futurists, planners, innovators, and those interested in human nature and history.

Take-Aways

  • Technology includes everything from flint axes and language to computers and culture.
  • The “technium” – a “self-reinforcing system of creation” – is the broad range of technologies all life on Earth creates.
  • Human impulses and desires spur the technium, which has a life of its own.

About the Author

Kevin Kelly, co-founder and executive editor of Wired magazine, also wrote Out of Control and New Rules for the New Economy. He runs the Cool Tools website where readers review gadgets.


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