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Technology is anything invented after you were born.
- Alan Kay
Technology is anything that doesn’t work yet. - Danny Hillis
The Technium
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
Te
Technology has its own
agenda.
Power Use
Technium
Us
Simultaneous invention is normal.
Moore's Law
Prohibition doesn’t work
Chert knife with horn handle, $50
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
$2
Better than a king
Technology is a cosmic force….
Self-Organizatio
n
Technium
What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants
