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Cover of What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly · 2010
Mentioned 9 times across 3 podcasts · 2019–2025
Mention timeline9 mentions
20192025
Where it's mentioned
2025
Gavin Baker - Nvidia v. Google, Scaling Laws, and the Economics of AI
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Dec 2025
“You're a deep reader of sci-fi, so uh you're making me think of Kevin Kelly's great book, What Technology Wants”
2024
#782: Legendary Inventor Danny Hillis (Plus Kevin Kelly) — Unorthodox Lessons from 400+ Patents, Solving the Impossible, Real Al vs. “AI”, Hiring Richard Feynman, Working with Steve Jobs, Creating Parallel Computing, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2024
“What Technology Wants”
Ray Ozzie - The Future of Intelligent Machines - [Invest Like the Best, EP.391]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Oct 2024
“I always love that. framing that Kevin Kelly has in that book. I think the book is called What Technology Wants”
Bret Taylor - The Agent Era - [Invest Like the Best, EP.386]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Sep 2024
“I love the title of this one Kevin Kelly book, What Technology Wants, and I'm curious what agents want”
#753: Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2024
“Including Excellent advice for living. The inevitable. What technology wants. And Vanishing Asia”
2023
#669: Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2023
“What technology wants, a robust theory of technology vanishing Asia”
2021
Peter Reinhardt - Learning How to Sell – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 34]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · May 2021
“I love Kevin Kelly's idea of the technium. I think you're the one that turned me on to his book, What Technology Wants, where it's like this independent thing”
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
The Knowledge Project · Mar 2021
“I write about it in the book, I drawn upon the ideas of Kevin Kelly, who wrote a book called What Technology Wants, about how technology seems to decide what's going to be invented next by somebody”
2019
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
The Knowledge Project · Aug 2019
“And Kevin wrote a great book called What Technology Wants, which I think everyone should read”