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“Technology as a whole system, or what I call the technium, seems to be a dominant force in the culture.”
“Everything which humans have thought of and produced over time - which Kelly dubs the technium has followed, shaped and become integrated into human evolution - so much so, in fact, that it's now a part of evolution itself.”
“However, the technium, which is a product of our brain, can alter the circuits that produced it.”
“But that is not to say that the notion of a "technium" is without interest, if only as a provocative way of thinking about the technological cocoon that seems to be swiftly encasing us.”
The Wall Street Journal: Do Machines Have Minds of Their Own?
“His central argument - that the "technium" his word for the world of technology deserves to be regarded as the seventh kingdom of life, along with plants, protists and animals - is an ambitious one, but one thing that Kelly does not lack is ambition.”
“This is what Kelly - whose ideas seem to be simultaneously religious, Darwinian and transcendental - calls the "technium”
“The technium, Kelly says, ultimately creates more good than harm.”
“Yet, Kelly exalts the technium to such a degree that he sometimes sounds like a lobbyist or, dare I say, a mad scientist.”
“There is a cost to run this machine, a cost we are only beginning to reckon with, but so far the gains from this ever enlarging technium outweigh the alternative of no machine at all.”
“That is, baked into the nature of this vast complex of technological systems are self-serving aspects - technologies that enable more technology, and systems that preserve themselves -- and also inherent biases that lead the technium in certain directions, outside of human desire.”
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immerbeta Kevin Kelly is running an ongoing blog on the technium: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/ Sep 24, 2008