Words. Music and sound. Visual treasures. Houses of Art. A Singular Creation - Art Community - Art Contests and Opportuni. Out of Control is a summary of what we know about self-sustaining systems, both living ones such as a tropical wetland, or an artificial one, such as a computer simulation of our planet.
The last chapter of the book, "The Nine Laws of God," is a distillation of the nine common principles that all life-like systems share. The major themes of the book are: As we make our machines and institutions more complex, we have to make them more biological in order to manage them.The most potent force in technology will be artificial evolution. We are already evolving software and drugs instead of engineering them.Organic life is the ultimate technology, and all technology will improve towards biology.The main thing computers are good for is creating little worlds so that we can try out the Great Questions.
Online communities let us ask the question "what is a democracy; what do you need for it? "