TEDTalk Tuesday: Kevin Kelly and the Evolution of Technology

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For today's TEDTALKTUESDAY, we hear from the founding executive director of Wired magazine, who makes a case for the evolution of technology, and how that evolution differs from the evolution of life. From what technology "wants" to what Kelly calls "the infinite game", in this talk we learn about the persistence of technology and how that relates to the development of technology as a whole.

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Talk title: How does technology evolve? Like we did (video runtime: 20:06)



Kevin Kelly

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About this Talk

Kevin Kelly uses evolutionary theory to discuss the purpose and value of technology. By asking, "What does technology want?" he shows that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life. Using a discipline-hopping range of examples -- from exotic flora to the Big Bang, from the Amish to Mozart -- Kelly not only draws an encompassing picture of humans and machines evolving, but discovers, while he's at it, a moral assignment for everyone in his audience.