What Technology Wants

Technology as a force with tendencies of its own: toward decentralisation, accessibility, complexity, diversity. Kelly argues that the technium — the total system of technologies — has a direction, and that organisations and societies adapt to it more than they control it. It connects with the idea that AI is not something you decide to adopt; it is a force that subjects the organisation to pressures in multiple directions at once. You do not opt out of a tendency — you negotiate with it.