- Title
- Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
- Author
- Kelly, Kevin
- Publisher
- Perseus Books
- Year
- 1995
- ISBN
- 0201483408
- Library
- N/A
Curriculum and Classification
- Subject
- Process understanding and Systems Thinking
- MainCurriculum
- Process Design
- SubCurriculum
- Systematic Thinking
- Semester
- Semester 1
Abstract
Amazon.co.uk Review
Synopsis 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..
From the Author Why you should read this book 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.
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