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Kevin Kelly: How does technology evolve? Like we did

www.ted.com Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks “What does technology want?” and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http

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molitatron says:

January 23, 2012 at 7:12 pm

@technologywired12 You, my friend, are an hyperbole with legs. Point taken though

3877michael says:

January 23, 2012 at 7:39 pm

@ax2kool Kool ! Thanks.

ax2kool says:

January 23, 2012 at 8:15 pm

@3877michael Very insightful comment!

Brust90 says:

January 23, 2012 at 8:25 pm

sidetrack much.

technologywired12 says:

January 23, 2012 at 8:44 pm

AS they say, latest today, obsolete after 2 months. That is how fast technology evolves in today’s generation. How can each people cope up[ with such change?

DanHolly3 says:

January 23, 2012 at 9:12 pm

@EcoDimension did u quote something when u said this 10 months ago?

January 23, 2012 at 9:48 pm

@FunLucas182 howd it go?

blasel33 says:

January 23, 2012 at 10:15 pm

Great guy but saying, that technology doesn’t die out is obviously not true. Would be great if we could still build the Saturn V.

January 23, 2012 at 10:26 pm

Consciousness incarnating into matter. A I is inevitable. Cosmic consciousness, living consciousness and matter consciousness are the same thing.

EcoDimension says:

January 23, 2012 at 11:00 pm

why so complicated?
to put it simply..
“technology is driven by humanity’s wants and needs”

carsanookdotcom says:

January 23, 2012 at 11:12 pm

Did I hear the word Spiritual?
BangkokJohnny
Royaume de Thailande

The4LA2Baker0 says:

January 23, 2012 at 11:20 pm

@FunLucas182 Some of em suck. Don’t get me wrong, I love the topics, but some of em are TERRIBLE speakers. I recommend searching for “TED” on “stumbleupon”. I find the lame ones are effectively weeded out on that “social media sharing network”.

8^D

Neanderthalcouzin says:

January 23, 2012 at 11:38 pm

@thehappyfascist interesting way of putting it. I also see technology aligning more with nature as it evolves, since that is the more cutting edge and efficient way to be. For instance getting energy from old, squashed plants in the form of oil is pretty primitive, but if we could be as smart as the plant itself, and get energy from the original pure source, then we’d be talking.
Technology will take on the complexity of cells, etc, and so on.

January 24, 2012 at 12:08 am

He said he biked across the US on the power of his own body. What about the bicycle? It’s a human-machine relationship, isn’t it ironic that he says he dropped technology to travel on a piece of technology?

kurizzos says:

January 24, 2012 at 12:11 am

@Saktoth- Tech is what society wants, so it gets it…
It’s guaranteed that many noses point toward a device on every metro train and those born after the early 1970′s can give someone their experience in playing video games more than their experience in social gatherings probably.

So is the question’s about too much electronic dependency? Oh well…as predicted by Butler.

But, I can’t let my degree in tech go down the drain, ya know. =)

January 24, 2012 at 12:12 am

002Tchiputu says:

January 24, 2012 at 12:58 am

This guy’s vision is real.

reddinosaur7 says:

January 24, 2012 at 1:06 am

@eksiarvamus Things that creatures use are considered part of the natural world (like rocks, trees for shelter, etc.). So really technology can be anything from a pencil to a table to clocks to electronics.

eksiarvamus says:

January 24, 2012 at 1:54 am

@reddinosaur7 But then why only by humans? Other creatures also use tools. Isn’t this technology aswell?

January 24, 2012 at 2:32 am

Technology is anything invented or innovated by humans. It’s anything that does occur naturally.

FunLucas182 says:

January 24, 2012 at 3:20 am

*new objetive in 2010
Wacth every single ted talks

ronbronb says:

January 24, 2012 at 4:07 am

Life is like a river, it flows and curves and eventually dries up. A fish with wings and the ability to fly is really a bird. A mouse is neither a fish, nor a bird. It’s all about a point in time and not about facts.

Saktoth says:

January 24, 2012 at 5:05 am

Google Samuel Butler, To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 13 June, 1863.

The first man to apply Darwins principles to technology and one of the finest pieces of futurism ever written. I am disappointed he didnt bring it up.

werecow2003 says:

January 24, 2012 at 5:08 am

I would say that technological evolution is a type of cultural evolution (along the lines of memetics), which in turn is an extension of biological evolution. They all interact to shape the evolutionary pressures in each in a larger dynamic system. It’s no longer possible to separate human biological evolution from culture and technology.

JAYDEEE75 says:

January 24, 2012 at 5:33 am

I like to think technology is the process of an invention or creation whether it be biological or mechanical…our society is made up of both since the first civilisation. Man was created from elements of nature and from us we created/invented tools to develop ourselves Life is made from the technology of nature, yes and machinery is made from the technology of man The function is the same but their purpose is most definately not always the same so better to keep technology separate from nature

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