Out of Control
Subtitle: The new biology of machines, social systems and the economics world
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Kevin Kelly
Published: 2009
Place of publication: https://kk.org/books/other-editions-of-out-of-control/
Language: eng
Format: E-Book
Number of pages: 423
Copyright date: 1994, photo 2008
Table of contents: title: 1 The Made and the Born 6; title: Neo-biological civilization 6; title: The triumph of the bio-logic 7; title: Learning to surrender our creations 8; title: 2 Hive Mind 9; title: Bees do it: distributed governance 9; title: The collective intelligence of a mob 1 1; title: Asymmetrical invisible hands 1 3; title: Decentralized remembering as an act of perception 1 5; title: More is more than more, it’s different 20; title: Advantages and disadvantages of swarms 21; title: The network is the icon of the 21st century 25; title: 3 Machines with an AttaTTitude 28; title: Entertaining machines with bodies 28; title: Fast, cheap and out of control 37; title: Getting smart from dumb things 41; title: The virtues of nested hierarchies 44; title: Using the real world to communicate 46; title: No intelligence without bodies 48; title: Mind/body black patch psychosis 49; title: 4 Assembl ing Compl exity 55; title: Biology: the future of machines 55; title: Restoring a prairie with fire and oozy seeds 58; title: Random paths to a stable ecosystem 60; title: How to do everything at once 62; title: The Humpty Dumpty challenge 65; title: 5 Coevolution 67; title: What color is a chameleon on a mirror? 67; title: The unreasonable point of life 70; title: Poised in the persistent state of almost falling 73; title: Rocks are slow life 75; title: Cooperation without friendship or foresight 78; title: 6 The Natural Flux 83; title: Equilibrium is death 83; title: What came first, stability or diversity? 86; title: Ecosystems: between a superorganism and an identity workshop 89; title: The origins of variation 90; title: Life immortal, ineradicable 92; title: Negentropy 95; title: The fourth discontinuity: the circle of becoming 97; title: 7 Em ergence of Control 99; title: In ancient Greece the first artificial self 99; title: Maturing of mechanical selfhood 1 02; title: The toilet: archetype of tautology 1 04; title: Self-causing agencies 1 08; title: 8 Closed Systems 11 2; title: Bottled life, sealed with clasp 11 2; title: Mail-order Gaia 11 5; title: Man breathes into algae, algae breathes into man 11 8; title: The very big ecotechnic terrarium 1 20; title: A an experiment in sustained chaos 23; title: A another synthetic ecosystem, like California 30; title: 9 Pop Goes the Biosphere 1 33; title: Co-pilots of the 100 million dollar glass ark 1 33; title: Migrating to urban weed 1 36; title: The deployment of intentional seasons 1 38; title: A cyclotron for the life sciences 43; title: The ultimate technology 1 45; title: 1; title: 0 Industrual Ec ology 1 47; title: Pervasive round-the-clock plug in 1 47; title: I invisible intelligence 49; title: Bad-dog rooms vs. nice-dog rooms 1 51; title: Programming a commonwealth 1 54; title: Closed-loop manufacturing 1 55; title: Technologies of adaptation 1 58; title: 11 Network Ec onomics 1 61; title: H having your everything amputated 61; title: I instead of crunching, connecting 62; title: Factories of information 1 65; title: Y your job: managing error 69; title: Connecting everything to everything 1 73; title: 1; title: 2 E-Money 1 76; title: Crypto-anarchy: encryption always wins 1 76; title: The fax effect and the law of increasing returns 1 82; title: S superdistribution 84; title: Anything holding an electric charge w ill hold a fiscal charge 189; title: Peer-to-peer finance with nanobucks 195; title: Fear of underwire economies 1 96; title: 1; title: 3 God Games 1 98; title: E electronic godhood 98; title: Theories with an interface 1 99; title: A god descends into his polygonal creationTo 203; title: The transmission of simulacra 208; title: Memorex warfare 209; title: S seamless distributed armies 213; title: A a 10,000 piece hyperreality 215; title: The consensual ascii superorganism 216; title: Letting go to win 219; title: 1; title: 4 In the Library of Form 221; title: A an outing to the universal library 221; title: The space of all possible pictures 225; title: Travels in biomorph land 228; title: H harnessing the mutator 231; title: S sex in the library 233; title: Breeding art masterpieces in three easy steps 236; title: Tunnelling through randomness 239; title: 1; title: 5 Artificial Evolution 241; title: Tom Ray’s electric-powered evolution machine 241; title: W what you can’t engineer, evolution can 245; title: Mindless acts performed in parallel 247; title: Computational arms race 251; title: Taming wild evolution 253; title: S stupid scientists evolving smart molecules 254; title: D death is the best teacher 258; title: The algorithmic genius of ants 261; title: The end of engineering’s hegemony 264; title: 1; title: 6 The Future of Control 267; title: Cartoon physics in toy worlds 267; title: Birthing a synthespian 269; title: R robots without hard bodies 272; title: The agents of ethnological architecture 275; title: I imposing destiny upon free will 276; title: Mickey Mouse rebooted after clobbering Donald 278; title: S searching for co-control 281; title: 1; title: 7 An Op en Universe 283; title: To enlarge the space of being 283; title: Primitives of visual possibilities 284; title: H how to program happy accidents 285; title: A all survive by hacking the rules 288; title: The handy-dandy tool of evolution 290; title: H hang-gliding into the game of life 292; title: Life verbs 294; title: H homesteading hyperlife territory 296; title: 1; title: 8 The St ruct ure of Organized Change 300; title: The revolution of daily evolution 300; title: Bypassing the central dogma 302; title: The difference, if any, between learning and evololution 304; title: The evolution of evolution 307; title: The explanation of everything 309; title: 1; title: 9 Postdarwinism 310; title: The incompleteness of Darwinian theory 310; title: Natural selection is not enough 312; title: Intersecting lines on the tree of life 314; title: The premise of non-random mutations 315; title: Even monsters follow rules 318; title: When the abstract is embodied 320; title: The essential clustering of life 321; title: DNA can’t code for everything 322; title: An uncertain density of biological search space 324; title: Mathematics of natural selection 325; title: 20 ����������������������� TheBuTTerFLysLeePs32The Butt erfl y Sl eeps 328; title: Order for free 328; title: Net math: A counter-intuitive style of math 329; title: Lap games, jets, and auto-catalytic sets 331; title: A question worth asking 333; title: Self-tuning vivisystems 337; title: 21 Rising Flow 340; title: A 4 billion year ponzi scheme 340; title: What evolution wants 343; title: Seven trends of hyper-evolution 346; title: Coyote trickster self-evolver 350; title: 22 Predict ion machinery 352; title: Brains that catch baseballs 352; title: The flip side of chaos 355; title: Positive myopia 357; title: Making a fortune from the pockets of predictability 358; title: Varieties of prediction 366; title: Change in the service of non-change 369; title: Telling the future is what the systems are for 370; title: The many problems with global models 370; title: We are all steering 375; title: 23 Wholes, Holes, and Sp aces 377; title: What ever happened to cybernetics? 377; title: The holes in the web of scientific knowledge 380; title: To be astonished by the trivial 382; title: Hypertext: the end of authority 385; title: A new thinking space 389; title: 24 The Nine Laws of God 392; title: How to make something from nothing 392; title: A; title: nnotated Bibl iography 398