Out of Control : the new biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world. / Kevin Kelly. txt
United States of America : Canada : Perseus Publishing , 1994Descripción: 521 p. 24 cmTipo de contenido:- text
- unmediaded
- volume
- 9780201483406
- 0201483408
- New biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world
- 303.483
- HC79.T4 K44 1994
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Descripciones mejoradas de Syndetics:
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.
Include index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-500)
Contents :
The made and the born 1 --
Hive mind 5 --
Machines with an attitude 29 --
Assembling complexity 57 --
Coevolution 69 --
The natural flux 91 --
Emergence of control 111 --
Closed systems 128 --
Pop goes the biosphere 150 --
Industrial ecology 166 --
Network economics 184 --
E-money 203 --
God games 230 --
In the library of form 258 --
Artificial evolution 283 --
The future of control 312 --
An open universe 332 --
The structure of organized change 352 --
Postdarwinism 365 --
The butterfly sleeps 389 --
Rising flow 404 --
Predicition machinery 420 --
Wholes, holes, and spaces 450 --
The nine laws of god 468 --
Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics
Kevin Kelly was born in 1952 in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Rhode Island but dropped out after one year. He became a freelance photo journalist. His photographs have appeared in several magazines including Life. In 1981, Kelly founded Walking Journal. He is a former editor of Whole Earth Review, Signal, and some of the later editions of the Whole Earth Catalog. With Whole Earth's founder, Stewart Brand, Kelly helped found the WELL, a highly regarded online community. He has been a director of the Point Foundation, which sponsored the first Hackers Conference in 1984 (before the word "hacker" had its current common, negative connotation).In 1994, Wired Magazine, for which Kelly was executive director, won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Kelly is now editor at large for the magazine. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harper's Magazine, Science, Veneer Magazine, GQ, and Esquire. He is the author of several books including What Technology Wants, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, and Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.
(Bowker Author Biography)