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(按:这不是一篇书评,不过能帮助大家对本书作者有更多了解。比如,我很惊讶他以前居然不用笔记本。而且他不使用智能手机,不爱上推特和Facebook。) 大家喜欢把 Kevin Kelly 叫作 KK。 今天是 KK 到中国的第三天,按计划,今日行程是爬长城。 早上8点到 KK 所住酒店,因为...
评分书名《失控》,英文《Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World》,听起来挺唬人,再加上黑黄色的封面,让人以为又是一本写于90年代的末日论著作。 实际上这是一本充满浪漫主义情怀的书。它描述了随着逐步放弃对机器的精确控制,...
评分钟表般的精确逻辑——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...
评分我在二十岁那年用在一家货运中心打工挣的钱买了一张从新泽西到亚洲的机票。在此之前,我只结识过一位中国人,甚至连亚洲的饮食都没沾过。我不知道在这个离家万里的地方会碰到什么。当我到达的时候,我的钱包几乎空空如也;不过,我有的是时间。 在接下来的八年里,我走遍了亚...
If scientists debunk truth like this, sooner or later we are going to believe in nothing. This book completely smashed my faith in intelligence, the origin of life, and pretty much everything else. I guess secretly, I am just another anthropocentric narcissist.
评分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http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php
评分中文版翻得惨不忍睹——不过确为神作
评分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
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