The Coming Age Of Systems And Machines Inspired By Living Things
This is a bit of a weird one. It’s the classic publisher trick of trying to something progressive and just getting it wrong. The complete text of Robert Franay’s new book is online – but you have to get it delivered to you piece by piece by email or RSS. So basically the book is being broken up into blog sized chunks. I can’t think of anything more irritating, to be honest, but those with patience could wait til all the emails arrive and then read the book from start to finish.
Here’s how Franay describes his book:
My aim in this book is to advance a view of the world that in some ways makes our complicated lives simple again. I believe this will come not just from Arcadian machines that work like living things but also from the rise of a culture that integrates the larger dynamics of lifeā??a culture that evolves. How long this can last, and where it will take us, are questions for the ages. Iā??d argue that if the ultimate end of life on earth is not knowable to us, one thing we can know and trust is ecological processā??if we understand it well, and if we create a world that works within it. This would free human culture to evolve toward a future that is advanced and sophisticated beyond our imagining, while becoming at the same time an entirely new expression of that bucolic ideal we see now as no more than an ancient dream.
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