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. Profiles technology as an evolving international system with predictable trends, counseling readers on how to prepare themselves and future generations by anticipating and steering their choices toward developing needs.

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Full title :What technology wants / Kevin Kelly.

Summary

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.

Profiles technology as an evolving international system with predictable trends, counseling readers on how to prepare themselves and future generations by anticipating and steering their choices toward developing needs.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Books
Place of Publication:New York, New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010

The Physical Object

Description:406 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780143120179, 0143120174, 9780670022151, 0670022152
oclc:ocn706024246
LC Classification:T14.5
Dewey Decimal:303.483

My question -- Origins -- Inventing ourselves -- History of the seventh kingdom -- The rise of exotropy -- Imperatives -- Deep progress -- Ordained becoming -- Convergence -- Listen to the technology -- Choosing the inevitable -- Choices -- The Unabomber was right -- Lessons of Amish hackers -- Seeking conviviality -- Directions -- Technology's trajectories -- Playing the infinite game.

Subjects

71.43 technology and society Social aspects Society Soziokultureller Wandel Technical development Technischer Fortschritt Technologie et civilisation Technology -- Social aspects Technology and civilization