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Out Of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Out Of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

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Product Code:
1630-01
ISBN
978-619-152-735-9
SKU
09.0098
Year
29-02-2016
Translation
from english: Maria Kondakova
Pages
688
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.85 kg
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Future & Technology, Biology & Evolution, Scientific Theories, Environment & Zoology

Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly (born in 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.Kelly was born in Pennsylvania on August 14, 1952, and graduated from Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey, in 1970. Through his father, an executive for Tim…

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Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

The central theme of the book is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a bee-hive of small simple components. Kelly applies this view to bureaucratic organizations, intelligent computers as well as to the human brain.

Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems, negentropy and chaos theory and it can be seen as a work of techno-utopianism.

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Стоян Колев 21/05/2020

Книгата е хубава, но за да бъде по-добре разбрана е необходима като основа "Обществото на спектакъла" на Дебор, която обаче за съжаление не е издавана на български.