Author Kevin Kelly discusses his book.

3. Technology is
anything
invented after
you were born.
- Alan Kay

4. Technology is
anything that
doesn’t work
yet.
- Danny Hillis

6. The Technium

7. Plants want light

8. What evolution wants

11. Complexity
Diversity
Specialization
Mutualism
Ubiquity
Sentience
Evolvability
Exotropy

13. Spark Catchers

14. Specialization

18. Technology:
The 7th
Kingdom
of Life

19. What technology wants

20. Technology
wants

21. Complexity
Diversity
Specialization
Mutualism
Ubiquity
Sentience
Evolvability
Exotropy

22. Energy density
Erg/g/s/
s/g
Time (years)/s/g
Now/
s/g
TSociety
Brains
Animals
Planets
Stars
Galaxies
Plants
Computers

23. Te
Technology
has its own
agenda.

24. Power Use
Technium
Us

25. Simultaneous invention
is normal.

26. Moore's Law

27. Prohibition
doesn’t work

28. Chert knife with horn handle, $50

33. Technologies
are
inevitable

34. The Web is inevitable.

36. World without technology
Early Food
Technology

37. World without technology
External
Stomach

39. 2 km/year

41. Extinction of Megafuana

42. Prehistoric Climate Change

43. TheThe
Most PowerfulMost Powerful
ForceForce
in the Worldin the World

44. Humanity is our
greatest invention
and we are not
done yet.

45. Technology
is selfish
Technology
serves us

46. Alphabet leads to linear
thinking.

47. Techno Planet

48. Technology wants
clean water.

50. Bad idea?

51. Better ideas

52. Bad technology

53. Better technology.

54. Our job as
humans:
To parent our
mind children.

55. Every
technology
is a
creative
force
looking for
the right
job.

56. There are no bad
technologies.

57. Convivial expressions
Collaboration
Flexibility
Decentralization
Transparency

58. Differences
Diversity
Options
Choices
Opportunities
Possibilities
Freedoms

59. 6,000 species
10,000 objects

60. 18,000 objects

61. $2

62. Better
than a
king

64. Technology
is a cosmic force….

66. Self-
Organization

67. Technium

73. Thank you.
kk@kk.org

74. What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants