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Out of Control
- 521 pages · about 9 hours
- First published 1992
- 6 editions
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1 About this book
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (ISBN 978-0201483406) is a 1992 book by Kevin Kelly. Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems, negentropy and chaos theory. The book can be seen as a work of techno-utopianism.
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Good for readers who want: artificial intelligence, history, and a long read.
- Artificial intelligence
- History
- Inventions
- Social groups
- Technological innovations
- Innovations
- Social change
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