What Does Technology Want?

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 16 November 2010

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature?

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts.
0:11.6	From W-N-Y-C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And N-P-R.
0:18.6	All right.
0:19.6	Three, two, one.
0:20.4	Hey, I'm Chad Aboumrod. I'm Robert Quillowicz. This is Radio Lab, the podcast. This week we're going to... I'm going live. You were going live. Sort of. From the New York Public Library, where they have a program called New York Public Library Live. So let's just to get the introductions done. When was it, by the way? When was it? It was in November. Was it on a Monday or a Thursday or Wednesday? I don't remember the day, but I do remember the people who are on the stage with me. They are wonderful, but irritating. They are Stephen Johnson, who's got a new book called Where Good Ideas Come From. And then there's Kevin Kelly with a book that he entitles, What Technology Wants.
0:56.0	So that's Kevin.
1:00.0	That's just a weird question, right?
1:02.0	I mean, if I met a spoon, I know what it wants.
1:06.0	It wants whatever I want.
1:07.0	I take it, put it in the soup, bring it to my mouth, suck on it, put it down. When it's down, it's just nothing. It doesn't want anything.
1:15.6	So, at least that's my notion.
1:17.6	So when you ask this question, or actually you don't even ask it, your book title answers it,
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