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What Technology Wants
Embedded with high doses of technology,
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Technology is humanity’s accelerant. Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from “might” to “is.”
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The essence of technology, he said, is ‘nothing technological’. To investigate it properly is to be taken to much deeper questions about how we work, how we occupy Earth, and how we are in relation to Being.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
The one thing humans can do that robots can’t (at least for a long while) is to decide what it is that humans want to do. This is not a trivial semantic trick; our desires are inspired by our previous inventions, making this a circular question.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
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Kevin Kelly helped us understand that asking what technology wants is a useful North Star, a compass for riding with the current instead of fighting it.