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Robert Krulwich can’t believe Kevin Kelly is correct about technologies never disappearing. But even if it’s true, are past results a guarantee of future progress? Continue reading

The bicycle rider always wants a car, Kevin Kelly reminds us in What Technology Wants. But the car won’t make him happier—and if what technology wants is autonomy, it may be advised against the pursuit of happiness. Continue reading

This third installment of a serial review of Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants encounters technology as a force with a sense of purpose and a plan. What that plan consists in we don’t know—and it seems that technology isn’t telling. Continue reading

To Kelly, the advance guard of the technium is to be found among the quadrillions of computer chips networked into vast electronic systems. But It may be difficult to discern whether the desires driving that process belong to technology, or are our own. Continue reading

In ‘What Technology Wants’, author and Wired founder Kevin Kelly elaborates a theory of technology that emancipates tools from the bondage of human hands. In the weeks to come, I’ll be blogging my reading of Kelly’s challenging and provocative work. Continue reading