Kevin Kelly (editor) - What Technology Wants (2010)

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Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

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The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

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Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
Increasing efficiency
Increasing opportunity
Increasing emergence
Increasing complexity
Increasing diversity
Increasing specialization
Increasing ubiquity
Increasing freedom
Increasing mutualism
Increasing beauty
Increasing sentience
Increasing structure
Increasing evolvability

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