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The Technium’s Evolution: AI and the Dawn of a New Paradigm
Everybody’s talking about artificial intelligence. The singularity moment. Machines overtaking humanity. But I’ll bet you, very few people are grasping the deeper, tectonic force behind it all: what Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly calls The Technium. The Technium is not just technology. It’s the broader, self-evolving, self-organized system of tools, knowledge, and infrastructure that humans have created to extend our reach.
The Technium is Self-reinforcing. Driven by its own agenda, not ours.
And if you think AI is just another step on this journey, think again. AI is the evolution of the Technium, and it is poised to trigger a paradigm shift unlike any before it.
The Technium has its own principles of evolution. From the moment our ancestors hurled the first stone — immortalized in that famous scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey (by the way, Arthur C. Clarke set that story in 2001 to hint at humanity’s eternal dance with technology) — the Technium has shaped who we are and what we believe.
