Out Of Control: The Rise Of Neo-biological CivilizationThis is a book about how our manufactured world has become so complex that the only way to create yet more complex things is by using the principles of biology. This means decentralized, bottom up control, evolutionary advances and error-honoring institutions. I also get into the new laws of wealth in a network-based economy, what the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona has or has not to teach us, and whether large systems can predict or be predicted. And more: restoration biology, encryption, a-life, and the lessons of hypertext. Yes, it's a romp, in 520 pages. But the best part, my friends tell me, is the 28-page annotated bibliography. If you have suspected that technology could be better, more life-like, then this book is for you. -- Product Description. |
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Page 147
... Bio2 marsh , the Bio2 workers hooked the watertight boxes up into a network of pipes so that they became one distributed saltwater tide . Later the 30 or so cubes were reassembled into Bio2 . Unboxed , the reconstituted marsh takes up ...
... Bio2 marsh , the Bio2 workers hooked the watertight boxes up into a network of pipes so that they became one distributed saltwater tide . Later the 30 or so cubes were reassembled into Bio2 . Unboxed , the reconstituted marsh takes up ...
Page 161
... Bio2 is ripening . It suffers from wild , infantile oscillations that require “ artificial ” nurturing to soothe ... Bio2 : the mechanical " technosphere . " The technosphere is the scaffolding put in place to help Bio2 pop . At several ...
... Bio2 is ripening . It suffers from wild , infantile oscillations that require “ artificial ” nurturing to soothe ... Bio2 : the mechanical " technosphere . " The technosphere is the scaffolding put in place to help Bio2 pop . At several ...
Page 162
... Bio2 . The nerve center of the whole system was the computer room run by an artificial cortex of wires , chips , and sensors from around Bio2 . Every valve , every pipe , and every motor of the infrastructure was simulated in a software ...
... Bio2 . The nerve center of the whole system was the computer room run by an artificial cortex of wires , chips , and sensors from around Bio2 . Every valve , every pipe , and every motor of the infrastructure was simulated in a software ...
Contents
THE MADE AND THE BORN | 1 |
HIVE MIND | 5 |
MACHINES WITH AN ATTITUDE | 29 |
Copyright | |
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