Any sufficiently complex system exhibits emergent behavior at the system level that is not present in any of its parts (a beehive has hive behavior found in no bee), and such systems exhibit inherent biases or 'leanings' that are independent of the behavior of the individual parts — this is what Kelly means when he says the Technium 'wants.'

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Kevin Kelly

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any system that does have these behaviors exhibits certain biases in in those behaviors that there's certain constraints made by the system to to bend it in one tenancy versus another and it's inherent

Source

Kevin Kelly on Technology and What Technology Wants 11/29/2010EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:09:26 AM

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