What Technology Wants, (Paperback)

from nmele

Although I disagree with many of Kelly's points, my main reasons for giving this book only two stars are its length--was it really necessary to recap the history of the universe from the Big Bang?--and Kelly's almost tautological optimism about technology. He consistently dismisses or downplays c...

from paulkeller

in one word disappointing (or to be more fair, i probably expected something better). his argument is suffocated by the excessive amount of examples that he uses. also in my book adding example to example does not automatically lead to a valid theory. i guess that his original insight, that techn...

from rachelgatwood

This book is full of big, exciting ideas. Maybe a little too big and too exciting. Kevin Kelly is obviously a smart and careful thinker, but he's dealing with multiple disciplines outside of his own, and his enthusiasm goes badly with his ignorance. Kelly argues, not altogether convincingly, aga...

from jasonli

"What Technology Wants" posits that technology, as a whole, as a complex ecosystem, can be considered the seventh kingdom of life. Kelly manages to back this far-fetched claim with prescient examples from history, biology and social science while making astute observations about technology's cont...

from haig51

Like Père Teilhard's 'The Phenomenon of Man', Kevin Kelly takes up the sweeping subject of cosmic evolution, both past and future, but this time specifically focusing on the part of the universe that has, in recent times, occupied the forefront of our zeitgeist, technology. Whenever approaching s...