《What Technology Wants》是一本由Kevin Kelly著作，Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated出版的Hardcover图书，本书定价：USD 27.95，页数：416，特精心从网络上整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
●最近看书很慢。感觉这本不如《失控》，尤其结尾，不过中间有几章值得看。
●还行，把technium看成某种进化的智能。但是叙述太啰嗦，几句话可以说明的事情可以写成整整一章。
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《What Technology Wants》读后感(一)：东西网连载：【科技想要什么】第一章 我的疑惑
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技术元素（technium）不仅指硬件，而且包括文化、艺术、社会制度以及各类思想。它包含无形的事物，例如软件、法律和哲学概念。最重要的是，它包括人类发明所具有的“繁殖”动力，这种动力促进新工具的制作和新的科技发明，鼓励不同技术进行沟通以实现自我改进。
《What Technology Wants》读后感(二)：KK在讲述着什么
从《失控》这本书就开始了解KK，知道除了这本新书之后就翻阅英文版，大概看到100页确是爱不释手。由于业余时间有限，读英文比较慢，赶紧买了中文版重头读起。已经读到第二部分，译文流畅，KK的行文当然还是有理有据，循循善诱，大师就是大师，思想深邃，逻辑严密，旁征博引，谈古论今，娃哈哈。
肯定会继续读下去，并且继续支持KK，以我有限的知识和经验并不能完全一次性接受其观点和推导，但是我会通过多种渠道学习，验证，交流，思考，以使阅读后的思想得以升华。KK的网站上也有诸多论文，在讲述人类社会，整个宇宙发生的变迁，尤其是技术元素对人类世界和宇宙的影响。
英文好就使劲钻英文，嫌费时的就看中文，你我齐头并进，学习KK，理解技术，其乐融融啊！
最后一句：KK启迪了我的思考，不仅仅局限于书内，此生有此不曾谋面的导师，荣幸之至。
《What Technology Wants》读后感(三)：A simple introduction to find out if you would like to read further in the book
This book defies easy summary. One touching fact about this book is that Mr. Kelly is not a fanatical theorist, preaching abstract concepts without anybody even know what it is. His ideas and perception have strong support from his own rich experiences. I'd like to give overview of his life with technology in first part of this book.
Mr. Kelly reviews his 8-year life in remote parts of Asia in cheap sneakers and worn jeans and the following 5000-mile meander across the American continent by inexpensive bicycle. The highlight of the bicycling was the encounter with Amish communities. He finds he shares one common feature with those in Asia and Amish communities--the state of minimal technology.
He later became fascinated by the challenge of picking tools that might elevate his spirit.Though he served as editor for several magazines and run websites about selecting tools and technologies, he was still the one with limited belongings and the last in his circle to get the latest must-have gadget.
Then he acknowledged his contradictory relationship with technology, which brought his questions. As he put, our lives today are strung with profound and constant tension between the virtues of more technology and personal necessity of less: Should I get my kid this gadget？ Do I have time to master this labor-saving device？ And more deeply: What is this technology taking over my life？ What is this global force that elicits both our love and repulsion ？ How should we approach it？ Can we resist it, or is each and every new technology inevitable？ Does the relentless avalanche of new things deserve my support or my skepticism --- and will my choice even matter？
If you ever suffer from similar contradictions and questions, then you probably need some answers to guide you through this technological dilemma. This book may help; )
《What Technology Wants》读后感(四)：技术是一种生命形态？
来评价一本刚刚在美国发行、还没有出中文版的书籍可能有点不太适宜，但是由于和作者KK聊了两个多小时，写个东西纪念这位老人。他的所得无论对错，却似我两年硅谷生活的画龙点睛之笔。
“技术到底想要什么？”
“生命想要什么，技术就想要什么。“
“你是说，技术想要的和生命体想要的一致？那么Kevin，你想要什么？”
这是加州一个炎热的下午，我开着我的小Toyota Corolla驶向Pacifica，长达一个多小时的车程，阳光照射我，让我数度恍惚。如果你知晓《连线》，不难体会我的心情。
在很多人眼里，美国网络风潮的主角是比尔.盖茨、杨致远、贝佐斯或今日的拉里.佩奇和谢尔盖.布林，但是我得说，真正蛊惑人心的其实不是福布斯榜上的富豪们，而是幕后一批数字时代的传教士和鼓吹手，如堪称“技术狂热分子失乐园”的《连线》编委会——这帮人在20世纪90年代初创办媒体、折腾网络社区、召集数码精英聚会，高调看待数字化革命，好像技术是所有人最重要的事，而先后被这种神经质感染的包括有好莱坞首席明星代理人、克林顿总统新闻官、各个科技公司的高管及像海龟般理智谨慎的投资者。它的成功，伴随了一个股市泡沫。
我今日见到的Kevin Kelly，正是《连线》杂志的创始执行主编，但与其用这个头衔，倒莫若说他是该杂志的思想家：当年Andy Wachowski 和Larry Wachowski拍摄《黑客帝国》时，曾要求所有演员必须通读KK的书，这涉及技术哲学；后来KK一句不经意的话，画龙点睛地成了《连线》的主旨——“未来（技术）其实已经在这儿，只不过它的分布不那么均匀罢了。“这句话来自威廉.吉布森的小说。
KK的尖锐和深邃，源自于他对兴趣的专注及广泛涉猎。他曾发起过一个完整的地球生物物种还原运动；读大学时突然觉得Boring就骑了单车穿越多国；他还编过一本涵盖了黑客手册、文字处理软件、各种备选机器人及文艺作品的大杂烩《信号》。为满足好奇心，他能容忍任何事，只要不伤害别人，但因酷爱思考，KK也曾犯过晕，最著名的一次发生在31年前。
作为一名摄影记者，27岁的KK躺在耶路撒冷圣墓纪念堂门口突然觉得自己快要死了，于是，他回去和父母住在了一起、匿名捐赠了所有财务，并逐一拜访朋友，决意把自己和未来完全切断。不过，就在他认为是活着的最后一个晚上，KK睡得很早，第二天醒来时，一种奇怪心情突然在他心头涌现，那就是“心怀感激“。后来这种心情不仅持续了数十年，并且使KK的未来失而复得。然后，《连线》开始进入KK生命，并以一种预告未来的方式切入时代脉搏。
与这样一位聪明而广博的人物聊天不是一件轻松事，当我走进KK的工作室，就像走进一个机械化的宇宙空间，老人虽已58高龄，但此地是他能量的写照：一楼放着一个超大的机器人，我们坐在二楼，周围被一大堆书籍、满墙的生物进化演变图及一个硕大的苹果机所包围。对话在这里开始，但对话前KK要求给我拍照，这是他的习惯，每个前来拜访的人都受此殊荣。而我需要解决我到这里来的一个核心问题是——从《连线》及三部著作《网络经济的十种策略》、《失控》（12月中文版即将面世）及《What technology wants》（刚在美国出版），这些年KK发生了什么？
第一本书中，他阐明了技术对商业的影响，这是技术实用主义；然后他开始说起该如何使用技术使其不至失控；到现在，更旁若无人或可能是更客观而基本地站在了一个技术的立场、用技术语言在说话——KK到底在想什么？
“有个生物学家曾写过一本书，他通过基因视角观察生命，指出生命的不断繁衍某种程度上是基因不断繁衍的自我需要。而我从技术角度看待生命，得到结果同样如此，我认为技术有自己的生命。”
“What？“
“是的，我认为技术是生命体的第七种存在。人类目前已定义的生命形态包括植物、动物、原生生物、真菌、原细菌、真细菌，而技术应是之后的新一种生命形态。这是我所收集的一些图，它们展示了各生命体的演化时间和过程，对比后你会发现，其实技术的演化和它们有着惊人的相似。所以我的观点是：技术是生命的延伸，它不是独立于生命之外的东西。“
《What Technology Wants》读后感(五)：50% On the relationship between technium's evolution and human being's oppression
I'd say Unabomber's view on the relationship between technium's evolution and human being's oppression is indeed futuristic and eye-opening. In contrast, the author's counter argument seems relatively week and a bit elusive.
The deduction of human being's oppression as a result of technium's evolution appears logical and natural. With the intelligence and complexity of the technium increasing exponentially, a point would be reached that all decisions would have been taken away from human beings because the incomprehensible nature of the technium would make human being's decisions useless. To prevent the gloomy future, many anarcho primitivists proposed to collapse the modern civilization based on industrial societies entirely. The author refuted the proposal by basically saying that there is also no future even if we go back to the primitive state with zero technology and the author stopped there. So we are left with no choice but to march into the dark future awaiting us？
I doubt so. Neither the unabomber nor the author recognized that the magnitudes of existence of the technium and human beings are different thus the wants and desires from both parties might not even be in the same dimension. Without direct conflicts of interest, why would human beings must be exploited or oppressed for the survival or development of the technium？ The author himself said that the relationship between human beings and the technium is symbiotic, which essentially means both parties gain from this relationship. It is perfectly possible for technium to grant more degrees of freedom to human beings while the results produced by human beings fulfilling the technium's wants at the same time. This relationship is similar to that between us and some micro organism that could produce gas. We provide them with food while our need of energy is fulfilled by their existence. However, our need remains incomprehensible to them in this symbiotic relationship in a similar way technium's wants remains mysterious to us. A bigger challenge is to make sense of us as being inside the more encompassing technium rather than pondering on the artificial divide between human beings and the technium (which should be seen as the extension of our life)
Just to finish off, the chapter on the Unabomber is really interesting and worth reading.