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QUT OF CONTROL
OUT OF CONTROL
THE NEW BIOLOGY OF
MACHINES, SOCIAL SYSTEMS
AND THE ECONOMIC WORLD
KEVIN KELLY
C 0 N T E N T S
1
THE MADE AND THE BORN

1
2 HIVE MIND

5
3 MACHINES WITH AN ATTITUDE

29
4 ASSEMBLING COMPLEXITY

57
5 COEVOLUTION

69
6 THE NATURAL FLUX

91
7 EMERGENCE OF CONTROL

111
8 CLOSED SYSTEMS

128
9 Pop GOES THE BIOSPHERE

150
10 INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

166
11 NETWORK ECONOMICS

184
12 E-MONEY

203
13 GOD GAMES

230
14 IN THE LIBRARY OF FORM

258
15 ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION

283
16 THE FUTURE OF CONTROL

312
17 AN OPEN UNIVERSE

332
18 THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZED CHANGE

352
19 POSTDARWINISM

365
20 THE BUTTERFLY SLEEPS

389
21 RISING FLOW

404
22 PREDICTION MACHINERY

420
23 WHOLES, HOLES, AND SPACES

450
24 THE NINE LAWS OF GOD

468
Acknowledgments

473
Annotated Bibliography

475
Index

501
1
THE MADE AND THE BORN

I AM SEALED in a cottage of glass that is completely airtight. Inside I breathe my exhalations. Yet the air is fresh, blown by fans. My urine and excrement are recycled by a system of ducts, pipes, wires, plants, and marsh-microbes, and redeemed into water and food which I can eat. Tasty food. Good water.
Last night it snowed outside. Inside this experimental capsule it is warm, humid, and cozy. This morning the thick interior windows drip with heavy condensation. Plants crowd my space. I am surrounded by large banana leaves-huge splashes of heartwarming yellow-green color-and stringy vines of green beans entwining every vertical surface. About half the plants in this hut are food plants, and from these I harvested my dinner.
I am in a test module for living in space. My atmosphere is fully recycled by the plants and the soil they are rooted in, and by the labyrinth of noisy ductwork and pipes strung through the foliage. Neither the green plants alone nor the heavy machines alone are sufficient to keep me alive. Rather it is the union of sun-fed life and oil-fed machinery that keeps me going. Within this shed the living and the manufactured have been unified into one robust system, whose purpose is to nurture further complexities-at the moment, me.
What is clearly happening inside this glass capsule is happening less clearly at a great scale on Earth in the closing years of this millennium. The realm of the born-all that is nature-and the realm of the made-all that is humanly constructed-are becoming one. Machines are becoming biological and the biological is becoming engineer ............

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