Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

The evolution of the European Union

On the Technicum, Kevin Kelly - if I understand it correctly - openly writes a book about the evolution of technology, about the development of the Earth machine, the technological evolution of the planet: The Technicum.

In its latest chapter he asks: What does technology want?, and his answer is:
Possibilities
To increase diversity
To maximize freedom/choices
To expand the space of the possible

Efficiencies
To increase specialization/uniqueness
To increase power density
To increase density of meaning
To engage all matter and energy
To reach ubiquity and free-ness
To become beautiful

Complexity
To increase complexity
To increase social co-dependency
To increase self-referential nature
To align with nature

Evolvability
To accelerate evolvability
To play the infinite game
Replace "technology" by "the European Union", and then re-read the whole chapter under this perspective...