What Technology Wants

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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.

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dense treatment of "technium" submitted by edwardvielmetti on June 23, 2011, 4:16pm This is a book that resisted my urge to pick it up, leaf through it, and accumulate some easy insight into technology. Kevin Kelly has put together a thick, densely annotated and footnoted book with a complex and nuanced understanding to the ways that technological advancements unfold over time.

I am certain that there is an accessible, and much briefer, version of this argument, one that can be absorbed in a single sitting. I haven't found it yet, but a likely place for it is here

http://www.kk.org/books/what-technology-wants.php

I'd recommend starting with pp 11-17, Kelly's discussion of "the technium", a term for the interconnected world of technology which in his eye possesses a life force which tends towards evolutionary complexity and growth. There's a TED talk as well, which should be useful.