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.
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.
作为新星出版社的一名员工,我很荣幸的成为了中国前10名看到《失控》中文版的读者。而且作为KK中国行的跟拍摄影,我也非常近距离的接触到了KK本人,所以我下了这样一个标题:Nice的人与Nice的书。 KK中国行照片:http://www.douban.com/photos/album/38479413/ 《失控》7...
评分如此优秀的一本书,还是被“东西文库”译得错误百出,感到非常可惜。今天终于痛下决心,准备利用重读的机会,用英文版电子书对照,陆续挑出这本书中我认为比较严重的翻译错误(和错别字),供译者和各位高手批评指正!申明一下,我下这番笨功夫,没有别的意思,只是不认同这种...
评分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...
评分内容庞杂,安排失当。章节之间关系含糊(或者没有关系),文章组织混乱。如果有人能做个摘要,还值得一读,不然随便翻翻也就算了。 作者想覆盖许多领域,但对许多领域都只是泛泛了解,少有真知灼见。他心里有一种朦胧的体悟,却骨鲠在喉,不能以精确而严密的语言来组织和表达...
评分研读《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...
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评分神书!!!It changes the way you look at the world.
评分控制之外:新机器生物学,社会系统,与经济世界
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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