What Does Technology Want?

Are new ideas driven by a larger force of nature?

In this conversation recorded as part of the New York Public Library series LIVE from the NYPL, Steven Johnson (author of Where Good Ideas Come From) and Kevin Kelly (author of What Technology Wants) explain that the things we make—from spoons to microwaves to computers—are an extension of the same evolutionary processes that made us. And we may need to adapt to the idea that our technology could someday truly have a mind of its own.

Inventions Are Inevitable Audio Embed: NPR & WNYC's Radio Lab, Hosts: Robert Krulwich & Jad Abumrad.