Kevin Kelly. Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Basic Books, 1994, 528 p.
Language: English.
ISBN10: 0201483408.
ISBN13: 978-0201483406.
A quest for the basic principals defining artificial evolution (what will be common in the next century). From the former editor of CoEvolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Review, the first phantasmagoric look, not just at the science of spontaneous self-organization, but actually into the phenomenon itself.The made and the born.
Hive mind.
Machines with an attitude.
Assembling complexity.
Coevolution.
The natural flux.
Emergence of control.
Closed systems.
Pop goes the biosphere.
Industrial ecology.
Network economics.
E-money.
God games.
In the library of form.
Artificial evolution.
The future of control.
An open universe.
The structure of organized change.
Postdarwinism.
The butterfly sleeps.
Rising flow.
Predicition machinery.
Wholes, holes, and spaces.
The nine laws of god.