Machine needs: How technology is shaping humanity

November 5, 2010

A FEW years after Desmond Morris laid bare our animal nature in The Naked Ape, Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book Future Shock questioned our species’ ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology. Forty years later, the question remains. In What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine, considers it from the viewpoint that technology accelerates human evolution, creating order and complexity in the face of entropy’s rule. (New Scientist)