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.
《失控》第一章即开篇明义:人造与天生的联姻正是本书的主题。KK指出,人造物与自然生命之间有两种趋势正在发生: 1. 人造物表现得越来越像生命体; 2. 生命变得越来越工程化。 从第二章至第二十三章,均在阐述这一个主题。在全书最后一章即二十四章,KK总结了造物九律: ...
评分《失控》第八章:控制的兴趣,共6小节,分别为:密封的瓶装生命、邮购盖亚、人与绿藻息息相关、巨大的生态技术玻璃球、在持久的混沌中进行的实验和另外一种合成生态系统 在第六节另外一种生态系统中有这样一句话:“在封闭系统中,共同进化的多样性得到了集中体现。把虾倒进一...
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...
评分由渥卓斯基兄弟拍摄的“骇客帝国”得益于一系列的哲学,思想和艺术。灵感来自各种不同的激发,所以对那些想要深究骇客帝国哲学而刨根问底寻找后的这些灵感来源的“骇客迷”们,这的确是一次“愉快的挑战”。虽然激发了渥卓斯基兄弟的可能有无数本书,但其中很多我们大概永远不...
评分由渥卓斯基兄弟拍摄的“骇客帝国”得益于一系列的哲学,思想和艺术。灵感来自各种不同的激发,所以对那些想要深究骇客帝国哲学而刨根问底寻找后的这些灵感来源的“骇客迷”们,这的确是一次“愉快的挑战”。虽然激发了渥卓斯基兄弟的可能有无数本书,但其中很多我们大概永远不...
很爽的一本科学幻想小说,涨见识;早两年看就更好了,不过现在也不晚
评分中文版翻得惨不忍睹——不过确为神作
评分Too wordy for what it's worth
评分神书!!!It changes the way you look at the world.
评分Masterpiece.
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