Out of Control

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.

出版者:Basic Books

作者:[美] Kevin Kelly

页数:528

出版时间:1995-4-14

价格:USD 22.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780201483406

丛书系列:Basic Books

图书标签:KevinKelly哲学科学思想失控科普英文原版complexity

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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.

读后感

——《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...  

研读《失控》，就如同一次冒险之旅，你会发现自己正身处一个不断拓展的可能性之库，一个开放的大千世界，甚至分不清是真实还是梦境。 原链接：http://dongxi.net/b04XW 技术超验主义者的生命之书 ——评凯文·凯利《失控》 梭罗这人有脑子 月亮照着他的鼻子 …… 梭罗这人有脑...  

钟表般的精确逻辑——也即机械的逻辑——只能用来建造简单的装置。真正复杂的系统，比如细胞、草原、经济体或者大脑（不管是自然的还是人工的）都需要一种地道的非技术的逻辑。 生命中到底有多少东西是能被转化的，仍然是一个神奇的谜团。到目前为止，那些原属于生命体但却成...  

在一个书面阅读能力严重退化的时代，我很怀疑有多少人能坚持读完这本《失控》，它厚达700页，价格88元，但它的确是一本有深度的好书。 《失控》的作者凯文·凯利被人亲昵称为KK，他是《连线》杂志的创始人，在创办《连线》之前，他是《全球概览》杂志的编辑和出版人，这可是当...  

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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。

Masterpiece.

神书！！！It changes the way you look at the world.

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