Authors@Google: Kevin Kelly

What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly will be speaking about his latest book, "What Technology Wants." This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not just a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." Kelly 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.

Speaker Info:

Kevin Kelly (http://www.kk.org/)

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He has just finished a book for Viking/Penguin called "What Technology Wants," published October 18, 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website (http://www.kk.org/cooltools/), which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• authors@google technology
• wired magazine

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[drchaffee]

31:41 I don't agree with Kevin's analogy with the hammer. The potential downside of a technology needs to be weighed with the potential upside. There are aspects of human nature that should be fought against rather than embraced. But, I do agree with him that technology is inevitable.

[i0c0u]

What a great and interesting lecture! Thank you Google!

[MrBnowak]

04:43 I was always wondering if we would removed all technologies from Human but leaving them the knowledge, how long it would take them to re-create it.

Even manufacturing tools would be tricky without tools....