Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
Author: Kevin Kelly Manufacturer: Perseus Books Group Keywords: Biology ISBN: 0201483408
Book description In many ways, the 20th century has been the Age of Physics. Out of Control is an accessible and entertaining explanation of why the coming years will probably be the Age of Biology - particularly evolution and ethology - and what this will mean to most every aspect of our society. Kelly is an enthusiastic and well-informed guide who explains the promises and implications of this rapidly evolving revolution very well.
Book review: Original thinking the value of which I really do not have the tools to judge This is Kevin Kelly's own summary of his bottom- line conclusions." As we make our machines and institutions more complex, we have to make them more biological in order to manage them. The most potent
Why are the three most powerful forces in our world-evolution, democracy and capitalism-so controversial? Hundreds (in the case of democracy, thousands) of years after they were first understood, we
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