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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Kevin Kelly

Filed under: [ biology, hardware, tech ]

http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php

Another by Kevin Kelly, of Wired fame.

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This book is about the marriage of the born and the made. By extracting the logical principle of both life and machines, and applying each to the task of building extremely complex systems, technicians are conjuring up contraptions that are at once both made and alive. This marriage between life and machines is one of convenience, because, in part, it has been forced by our current technical limitations. For the world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it. That is, the more mechanical we make our fabricated environment, the more biological it will eventually have to be if it is to work at all. Our future is technological; but it will not be a world of gray steel. Rather our technological future is headed toward a neo-biological civilization.

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