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Podcast 421 - Kevin Kelly on What Technology Wants

February 11, 2013


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Today is an interview with Kevin Kelly.  He's admired for his new perspectives on technology and renowned for his Ted Talks


We discuss today about What Technology Wants




  • His thoughts on the third industrial revolution - it is not about computers it is about networks.
  • How Darwin's theory of evolution can be used to understand the "technium"
  • How technology is an extension of our minds.
  • How technium will self amplify itself and also give us as business leaders will be able to grow ourselves.
  • How the technology is creating new ways of earning a living, how it is the acceleration of normal evolution of life.
  • How our institutions have not adjusted to the digital economy and how we need to redefine intellectual property for a networked age.
  • Should we be able to own ideas in a networked age?
  • Is society going faster than business models?
  • How discoveries should belong to the commons.
  • Will it take 100 years for the true valuation of the effect of technology on economic productivity?
  • How we are only at the beginning of the networked economy.
  • How the third revolution has created a new language - is that significant, does that show a new technology frontier?
  • What should we call this revolution? Digital, networked, knowledge, sharing?
  • How we mirror nature?
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