# Kevin Kelly's books *Source: · markdown twin of the entry page.* *An influence on **Dinis Cruz** — one of 25 entries in his register.* - **tier** stated — on Dinis Cruz's list, thin or absent in the corpus, awaiting his briefing document - **kind** books - **status** stub — blocks 1 and 3, plus the research plan — awaiting Dinis Cruz's briefing document - **briefing** requested 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 **Three candidates, none confirmed.** They are quite different books and the entry reads differently depending which one did the shaping — [N2](../../admin/comms.html#n2). *Linked, never rehosted.* ## Block 2 — In his own words 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](../wardley/index.html) — 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](../../map/index.html). ## 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 - **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 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. **Research plan.** Confirm which book, or which combination, in [N2](../../admin/comms.html#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](../../admin/comms.html#r3)). ## The corpus evidence None. This influence is on Dinis Cruz's own list and the corpus scan found nothing to attach to it — which is the definition of the STATED tier. --- CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic). The anchor work belongs to its author and is linked, not licensed here.