Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Author: Kevin Kelly
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things…..Read More
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