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