This means decentralized, bottom up control, evolutionary advances and error-honoring institutions. I also get into the new laws of wealth in a network -based economy, what the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona has or has not to teach us, and whether large systems can predict or be predicted. Yes, it's a romp, in 520 pages. But the best part, my friends tell me, is the 28-page annotated bibliography. If you have suspected that technology could be better, more life-like, then this book is for you.
Nobody is in charge.
It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Big Brother is not watching you. In Out of Control, the flagship volume of this technological post-Darwinism, Wired editor Kevin Kelly argues that we are heading into a neobiological civilization defined by organic technologies, machinelike biologies, and the prevalence of networks and hive minds. Instead of musty old governments, outmoded humanist philosophies, and moribund social institutions, the creative novelty of the universe itself should guide technological development, economic networks. and human culture. Kelly would bridle at the label of metaphysician .