Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He has just completed a book for Viking/Penguin publishers called "What Technology Wants," due out in the Fall 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.
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评分——《失控》是一本好看得要死的严肃之作 文 小庄 数年前一个晚上,雷电交加,我在上海徐家汇美罗城上面静坐等一位远道而来的长者。漫长的堵车之后他出现在了对面的位置上,颔首而笑,有点发白的头发在夜晚的灯光下十分好看。然后他抓起我手边搁着的一摞书逐个念了一边书名...
评分《失控》的厉害在于,写于1994年,现在看来仍然像是预言。一开始是社会学,后来是管理学,最后发现也可以解读为恐怖科幻小说,里面又涵盖了数学、物理、化学、计算机、生物、控制、混沌等等各种基础与前言学科。 好,现在我就按照恐怖科幻的路子,解读一下。科学素养有限,描述...
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Out of Control is a summary of what we know about self-sustaining systems, both living ones such as a tropical wetland, or an artificial one, such as a computer simulation of our planet. The last chapter of the book, "The Nine Laws of God," is a distillation of the nine common principles that all life-like systems share. The major themes of the book are:
As we make our machines and institutions more complex, we have to make them more biological in order to manage them.
The most potent force in technology will be artificial evolution. We are already evolving software and drugs instead of engineering them.
Organic life is the ultimate technology, and all technology will improve towards biology.
The main thing computers are good for is creating little worlds so that we can try out the Great Questions. Online communities let us ask the question "what is a democracy; what do you need for it?" by trying to wire a democracy up, and re-wire it if it doesn't work. Virtual reality lets us ask "what is reality?" by trying to synthesize it. And computers give us room to ask "what is life?" by providing a universe in which to create computer viruses and artificial creatures of increasing complexity. Philosophers sitting in academies used to ask the Great Questions; now they are asked by experimentalists creating worlds.
As we shape technology, it shapes us. We are connecting everything to everything, and so our entire culture is migrating to a "network culture" and a new network economics.
In order to harvest the power of organic machines, we have to instill in them guidelines and self-governance, and relinquish some of our total control.
Too wordy for what it's worth
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评分这本写于20年前的书,让我又回到那个对世界充满思考的年代。那时候关心的不是政治,也不是经济,而是科学和哲学。阅读,让我重新认识到还有很多有趣的事情值得去做。
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