What Technology Wants

出版者:Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

作者:[美] Kevin Kelly

页数:416

出版时间:2010-10-14

价格:USD 27.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670022151

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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.

读后感

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...  

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...  

通读了两遍《科技想要什么》后，我将总结下K.K在本书的论述中所体现的思维方式和推理思路： 1. 间断的思考和无条理地组织思路 首先，本书大量地出现破折号和括号，用以作补充阐述。这并非只有偶然几处，而是随处可见；数量如此之大，我们不得不怀疑K.K的思路并不是顺畅的、有...  

这两天停电正好把KK《科技需要什么？》看完了，感觉就是一个科技文化谜米倒腾了一整本书，虽然知识面看起来很广，其实错误不少，且不说译者把technology译成科技（其实很明显就是技术元素），当然KK自己都弄不清楚自己到底是在说科学还是技术或者科技文化，而诸如“硅，碳的同...  

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...  

用户评价

还行，把technium看成某种进化的智能。但是叙述太啰嗦，几句话可以说明的事情可以写成整整一章。

kk tech

失控之后，KK再次梳理理论脉络。东西网连载阅读http://dongxi.net/book/WhatTechnologyWants

整本书罗嗦死了，拿一个隐喻来回来去印证，跟失控差不多，观点有趣，你说他是小说吧，他好像有点数据，有点论证，你说他是科普吧，大多数的论据都是感悟，作者涉猎确实确实够宽。

严重缺乏逻辑.