By Kevin Kelly (2010), co-founder of Wired magazine, arguing that technology (the technium) is an autonomous force with its own evolutionary logic, wants, and trajectory — a seventh kingdom of life emerging from human culture.
Framed technology as a quasi-biological system with emergent properties and quasi-intentional drives, forcing a philosophical reckoning with whether human beings control technology or are shaped by it.
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