What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly

Book Overview

A refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world. This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670022152
• ISBN13: 9780670022151
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher