My favorite reading from my humanities class. It is one of those books that makes good analogies between biology and machines, and how technology is moving towards an integration of both into our lives. This is a book that can interest those who know techno-talk and those who know very little about how our technology operates. It gave much to think. Nature don't know mathematics nor physics or chemistry.
Nature know bio-logic.
In his book, Kelly show how this bio-logic can be transfered from natural systems to man made systems. Wired won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1994 and the National Magazine Award for Design in 1996. From 1984 to 1990, Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review , a journal of unorthodox technical news which had a small but influential readership. In 1988 he edited Signal, a Whole Earth Catalog of personal communication tools - in some ways a precursor to Wired. He was co-founder of the Hackers' Conference, an annual invitational gathering of creative technologists.