WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS

Verbalizing visceral feelings about technology, whether attraction or repulsion, Kelly explores the technium, his term for the glo balized, interconnected stage of technological development. Arguing that the processes creating the technium are akin to those of bi ological evolution, Kelly devotes the opening sections of his exposition to that analogy, maintaining that the technium exhibits a s imilar tendency toward self-organizing complexity. Having defined the technium, Kelly addresses its discontents, as expressed by the Unabomber...[Read more]