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》读完半个月了。很久没在看完一本书之后沉吟这么久。并不仅仅因为书写的好,更因为机缘巧合:这书恰恰补上了长久以来我世界观拼图里缺的那一块。 号称学了生物专业,生物化学、分子生物学之类早忘得一干二净,就算当初也没记住过多少。聊以慰藉的,是对生命有一个还算宏...
评分 评分《失控》读完半个月了。很久没在看完一本书之后沉吟这么久。并不仅仅因为书写的好,更因为机缘巧合:这书恰恰补上了长久以来我世界观拼图里缺的那一块。 号称学了生物专业,生物化学、分子生物学之类早忘得一干二净,就算当初也没记住过多少。聊以慰藉的,是对生命有一个还算宏...
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《失控》读完半个月了。很久没在看完一本书之后沉吟这么久。并不仅仅因为书写的好,更因为机缘巧合:这书恰恰补上了长久以来我世界观拼图里缺的那一块。 号称学了生物专业,生物化学、分子生物学之类早忘得一干二净,就算当初也没记住过多少。聊以慰藉的,是对生命有一个还算宏...
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评分innobook上好像有中文试读版的,不过好像就前面几章
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。
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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