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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Kelly |
| ISBN: | 0201483408 9780201483406 |
| OCLC Number: | 57396750 |
| Description: | 521 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 -- An open universe -- The structure of organized change -- Postdarwinism -- The butterfly sleeps -- Rising flow -- Predicition machinery -- Wholes, holes, and spaces -- The nine laws of god. |
| Other Titles: | New biology of machines, social systems and the economic world |
| Responsibility: | Kevin Kelly. |
Abstract:
This is a book about how our manufactured world has become so complex that the only way to create yet more complex things is by using the principles of biology. This means decentralized, bottom up control, evolutionary advances and error-honoring institutions. I also get into the new laws of wealth in a network-based economy, what the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona has or has not to teach us, and whether large systems can predict or be predicted. And more: restoration biology, encryption, a-life, and the lessons of hypertext. Yes, it's a romp, in 520 pages. But the best part, my friends tell me, is the 28-page annotated bibliography. If you have suspected that technology could be better, more life-like, then this book is for you. -- Product Description.
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