| What Technology Wants | |
| Author: | Kevin Kelly |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Culture, Human, Life, Technology |
| Publisher: | Viking Press |
| Release Date: | 2010 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-670-02215-1 |
What Technology Wants is a 2010 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly focused on technology as an extension of life.
The opening chapter of What Technology Wants, entitled "My Question", chronicles an early period in the author's life and conveys a sense of how he went from being a nomadic traveler with few possessions to a co-founder of Wired.[1] [2] The book invokes a giant force – the technium – which is "the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us".[3] [4]
In November 2014, Kelly gave a SALT talk (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) for the Long Now Foundation titled "Technium Unbound",[5] where he explained and expanded upon the ideas from his books What Technology Wants and Out of Control.
Kelly's book has been criticized for espousing a teleological view of biological evolution that is rejected by some scientists, and for promoting a "bizarre neo-mystical progressivism" (by Jerry Coyne).