Thoughts on "What Technology Wants"

Written on Oct. 28, 2013

From reading Kevin Kelly's "What Technology Wants", the lesson or one of them that I take from it is that older technologies don't have to become obsolete, necessarily. I used to think that it was about switching to the newest and most high-tech tools and abandoning the older, low tech ones. But perhaps this is not so.
 Perhaps it is about using the ones that work best for the job and switching back and forth easily.
For example, my tablet computer doesn't seem to lend itself to typing longer paragraphs and pages of thoughts at a speed closer to that which thoughts flow (like what is needed for the "morning pages exercise". A pen and paper seem to do this better.
So adaptability becomes the goal, rather than trying to find the newest and 'best' tool across the board. Using what works best for a given task. Not losing capabilities and benefits for the sake of modernity.

Side thoughts:
I am interested in doing art about the silly things that I find on the web such as "All Can Has Cheezeburger" cat.
Art is a conversation.
Art is a feedback loop.
Art in the future will be a relationship between the human and the machine.
The mining of the information fields.
Harvesting and synthesizing meaning from the vast sea of data.