What Technology Wants

In this 2010 book, Kevin Kelly argues that technology is best understood as a natural system, an extension of biological evolution. Kelly calls the whole web of tools, machines and ideas the technium and maps how it behaves like a living force with its own tendencies. He traces a dozen trajectories he expects it to follow in the coming decades and argues that by aligning ourselves with them, people can expand their choices and potential.

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