TEDxSF - Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1 993, 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, 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.

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[norahaura]

I agree. Just like George Carlin said, the planet wants plastic! youtube.com/watch?v=NBRquiS1pi­s

Seriously, though, I strongly believe we are an extension and expression of the Universe's desires.

[matchbox555]

i still dont get what his point is

[wildermeister]

i get the feeling he's just trying to coin his word "technium", and is probably bitter (according to his interview from Transcendent Man) that Kurzweil is so much smarter than he!