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#12 WIRED: On Technology's Origins, What Technology Wants, and Advising Steven Speilberg on Minority Report | Kevin Kelly, Founding Executive Editor

Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors

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Evolution and Technology - Is There a Destination?

i would say it's plural directions. There is no destination. These are directions in the sense of, as i explain, one of the directions is that evolution and technology always moves towards the more complex. So we have a very simple for all the organisms are kind of initially evolved, are very similar to each other, with a kind of blobby but over time, evolution makes increasingly various different kinds of organisms. In the same thing with technology, will make ever increasingly diverse kinds of technology. And the third one, just for illustration purposes, would be like, there's a general move in evolution from the general to the specific. Things are kind of multi purpose in the beginning, and overtime

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