Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He has just completed a book for Viking/Penguin publishers called "What Technology Wants," due out in the Fall 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.
A refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world.
This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed. This new theory of technology offers three practical lessons: By listening to what technology wants we can better prepare ourselves and our children for the inevitable technologies to come. By adopting the principles of pro-action and engagement, we can steer technologies into their best roles. And by aligning ourselves with the long-term imperatives of this near-living system, we can capture its full gifts. Written in intelligent and accessible language, this is a fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing opportunities in the world and how technology can give our lives greater meaning.
最近“致青春”很火,套用网上一个哥们的话来说:对我们这些长的丑的人来说只有大学没有青春。既然没有青春可致,那么我们就换个话题:聊聊生命!然而"生命赋予每个人只有一次,人的一生应该这样度过……",很多年前读到这段的时候,我也难以理解保哥,丫怎么就跟打了鸡血似的...
評分 評分读完此书觉得(个人)对这个世界再没有什么特别重大的疑惑了。我的认知界限也就到这里了。 人是什么,从哪里来到哪里去? 生物是什么,从哪里来到哪里去? 宇宙是什么,从哪里来到哪里去? 人工创造物与自然创造物的关系是否必定紧张,它们有接合点吗? 人文知识与物理知识有没...
評分回顾过去两三百年的历史,我们人类在技术方面确实是进步了许多,甚至突飞猛进、翻天覆地这样的词都显得渺小了。我们先后创造了工业革命、信息时代,到如今的生物技术方面的巨大进展(克隆、解读人类基因组等等)。我们智力发展到现在,可以当之无愧的成为地球之王,地...
評分相对于作者第一本书《失控》来说,这本书里新的东西很少,所以我只用了几个小时看完了本书,《失控》却是看了两三遍,想想老外们几十年前玩的东西我们国人至今未曾接触到,或者说我的眼界还不够宽广未曾看到,至少身为大众群体里的一员我是未曾接触到高新科技方面的东...
所以,生命的意義在於通過利用技術創造物,增加信息量,減少熵,一直把這個過程延續下去,填充無限的宇宙?
评分此書的見識無愧於這個時代。
评分another great book from Kelly beside "Out of Control"
评分Kevin Kelly的書就是附有洞察力!
评分mindblowing
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