American writer and co-founder of Wired who has developed a philosophical account of technology as a self-organizing system with its own evolutionary logic.
Out of Control: complex adaptive systems — biological, technological, economic — all exhibit similar emergent, self-organizing properties. What Technology Wants: technology (the 'technium') is an extension of biological evolution — it wants the same things life wants: diversity, efficiency, complexity. The Inevitable: 12 forces shaping the future — streaming, accessing, tracking, using, questioning, etc.
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