Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or 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) try to convince Robert that the things we makeafrom spoons to microwaves to computersaare 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.

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Posted: January 1st, 2011
at 7:08pm by Koookiecrumbles


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