Kevin Kelly's books
On Dinis Cruz's list, with no corpus evidence and three candidate anchors. The interesting question is whether the technium connects to Wardley's evolution axis or merely rhymes with it.
Block 1 The anchor
What Technology Wants (2010), The Inevitable (2016), or 1,000 True Fans (2008) — Kevin Kelly
No canonical URL. Not every anchor has one address — a book, a practice or a personal era does not — and this site links what is linkable rather than inventing a canonical home for something that has none. The wider library below carries what can be linked.
Three candidates, none confirmed. They are quite different books and the entry reads differently depending which one did the shaping — N2.
Block 2 In his own words
No first-person statement about this influence exists in the corpus yet. What follows is the site's reading of the evidence, not Dinis Cruz's words — and it stays labelled as such until his briefing document arrives.
One connection is worth flagging precisely so that it can be knocked down: the technium's claim that technologies evolve along paths with their own momentum is structurally close to Wardley's evolution axis — the most heavily traced influence in this register. If Dinis Cruz read Kelly first, that is a lineage. If he read Wardley first, it is a coincidence that looks like one. The register cannot tell the difference and should not guess, which is why the edge between them is not drawn on the map.
Block 3 The principle
(hypothesis) Technology is an evolutionary system with its own tendencies — some directions are pushed on us by what has already been built, rather than chosen.
Stated as a hypothesis because the source is Kelly's public argument, not Dinis Cruz's account of what he took from it.
Block 7 The wider library
The rest of the work, linked and never rehosted, each item with one line on what it adds. The full union of every entry's Block 7 is at /library/.
- What Technology Wants (2010) — the technium argument in full
- The Inevitable (2016) — twelve forces, framed as things already in motion
- 1,000 True Fans (2008) — the essay, published free — a different argument entirely, about who has to like your work ↗
- Out of Control (1994) — the earliest and strangest of them; decentralised systems before it was a genre
Awaiting the briefing document
This entry is a stub, and says so. Named by Dinis Cruz, absent from the corpus. Kelly's books are widely read and it would be easy to write a plausible entry from public material — which is precisely what this tier exists to stop.
The research plan
Confirm which book, or which combination, in N2. Then: check Dinis Cruz's conference talks for technium framing, and test the Wardley-evolution connection against whichever came first in his reading. The earlier blog material is the place to look (R3).
Tracked as N2 in the briefing queue.
The corpus evidence
None. This influence is on Dinis Cruz's own list and the corpus scan found nothing to attach to it. That is the definition of the STATED tier, and it is published rather than hidden: an empty evidence block is the most honest thing this page can show.
Where this sits
No nesting and no sibling site: this entry stands on its own. The influence map draws every relation the register records.