Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He has just completed a book for Viking/Penguin publishers called "What Technology Wants," due out in the Fall 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.
A refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world.
This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed. This new theory of technology offers three practical lessons: By listening to what technology wants we can better prepare ourselves and our children for the inevitable technologies to come. By adopting the principles of pro-action and engagement, we can steer technologies into their best roles. And by aligning ourselves with the long-term imperatives of this near-living system, we can capture its full gifts. Written in intelligent and accessible language, this is a fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing opportunities in the world and how technology can give our lives greater meaning.
回顾过去两三百年的历史,我们人类在技术方面确实是进步了许多,甚至突飞猛进、翻天覆地这样的词都显得渺小了。我们先后创造了工业革命、信息时代,到如今的生物技术方面的巨大进展(克隆、解读人类基因组等等)。我们智力发展到现在,可以当之无愧的成为地球之王,地...
评分首先是两个基本的翻译问题。一,technology怎么翻?译者的选择是“科技”,但科技(science & technology)里的科(science)并不是修饰词,而是和技(technology)并列的另一个概念。具体到书中的用法,一方面科学方法被描述为技术发展史上的一个节点,另一方面绘画诗歌音乐舞...
评分大家好,我是译者,来这里看看大家的讨论,感觉比当当强多了。唯一美中不足的是,呃,对译者的赞赏少了点。 我是人工智能、机器人的爱好者,我现在的职业也与此有关。过去曾阅读过人工智能方面的译著,加上现在翻译这本书的经历,我深刻地感受到,在西方,或者至少...
评分按:最近中信出版社出版了凯文·凯利(Kevin Kelly,后简称KK)《技术想要什么》一书中文版(中信版译为《科技想要什么》),第一时间买来读完之后发现,作为一部技术哲学书,KK写得极好看,数据翔实,逻辑分析清晰透彻,语言(译文)简洁生动。非常具有启发性和思考性。是我最...
评分通读了两遍《科技想要什么》后,我将总结下K.K在本书的论述中所体现的思维方式和推理思路: 1. 间断的思考和无条理地组织思路 首先,本书大量地出现破折号和括号,用以作补充阐述。这并非只有偶然几处,而是随处可见;数量如此之大,我们不得不怀疑K.K的思路并不是顺畅的、有...
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评分Kevin Kelly的书就是附有洞察力!
评分经过多次尝试,我发现KK在书中呈现的庞然大物和其中的哲学或者观点实在难以用简评概括。所以如果感兴趣的话,以下传送门会比较有帮助 ; ) :http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_how_technology_evolves.html
评分整本书罗嗦死了,拿一个隐喻来回来去印证,跟失控差不多,观点有趣,你说他是小说吧,他好像有点数据,有点论证,你说他是科普吧,大多数的论据都是感悟,作者涉猎确实确实够宽。
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