What Technology Wants

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

- Alan Kay

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

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Plants want light

What evolution wants

Complexity DiversitySpecializationMutualism UbiquitySentience EvolvabilityExotropy

Spark Catchers

Specialization

Technology:

The 7th Kingdom

of Life

What technology wants

Technology

wants

Complexity DiversitySpecializationMutualism UbiquitySentience EvolvabilityExotropy

Energy density

Erg/g/

s/s/g

Time (years)/s/g

Now/s/g

TSociety

Brains

Animals

Planets

StarsGalaxies

Plants

Computers

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Technology has its own

agenda.

Power Use

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Us

Simultaneous invention is normal.

Moore's Law

Prohibition doesn’t work

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Technologiesare

inevitable

The Web is inevitable.

World without technology

Early FoodTechnology

World without technology

External Stomach

2 km/year

Extinction of Megafuana

Prehistoric Climate Change

The The Most Powerful Most Powerful

Force Force in the Worldin the World

Humanity is our greatest invention

and we are not done yet.

Technology is selfish

Technology serves us

Alphabet leads to linear thinking.

Techno Planet

Technology wants clean water.

Bad idea?

Better ideas

Bad technology

Better technology.

Our job as humans:

To parent our mind children.

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

There are no bad technologies.

Convivial expressions

Collaboration

Flexibility

DecentralizationTransparency

DifferencesDiversity OptionsChoices

OpportunitiesPossibilities Freedoms

6,000 species

10,000 objects

18,000 objects

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Better than a king

Technology is a cosmic force….

Self-Organizatio

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What Technology Wants

What Technology Wants