Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines

by KevinKelly (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.50

  Provides an explanation to the lay reader of the science of artificial evolution. In recent years humans have built systems that approach the complexity of nature and these mechanical systems have shown unforeseen signs of life, evolution and learning. The author refers to these systems as Emergent Worlds . The law of the Emergent World is that no one can be in control. For the book, Kevin Kelly has interviewed the leading researchers in the field. Kevin Kelly is the editor of Whole Earth Review .

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  A synthesis of research and theory, this work chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the adaptability and autonomy of living organisms becomes the model for human made systems and machines. The author combines ideas from the Choas Theory, cybernetics, current thinking on evolution and research into computerized artificial life with his own experience of on-line culture to show that industrial culture is now obsolete. This book presents the prospects of imminent revolution as Kelly identifies new frontiers of thinking about biological systems that will change the way the natural world is percieved.