What Technology Wants
A work of futurism that frames technology as an evolving, autonomous system with inherent drives, which the author calls the 'technium.' It surveys historical and biological precedents to argue that technology’s development follows a direction that expands possibilities for life and consciousness.
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Ranked #1910 of 1942 · 411 pages · Published 2010
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