Out Of Control

Auteur

Kevin Kelly is Executive Editor of Wired, the new bible of the techno-culture. Formerly Publisher and Editor of Whole Earth Review, he has been instrumental in helping launch a number of cultural innovations: The Hacker's Conference; Cyberthon; the first virtual-reality jamboree; and the WELL, model way station on the information superhighway.

Texte du rabat

In a book about the marriage of the born and the made--the biologicalization of everything from computers to government--the executive editor of Wired chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that dri ve our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Résumé
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Contenu

• The Made and the Born Hive Mind Machines with an Attitude Assembling Complexity Coevolution The Natural Flux Emergence of Control Closed Systems Pop Goes the Biosphere Industrial Ecology Network Economics E-Money God Games In the Library of Form Artificial Evolution The Future of Control As Open Universe The Structure of Organized Change PostDarwinism The Butterfly Sleeps Rising Flow Prediction Machinery Wholes, Holes, and Spaces * The Nine Laws of God