Out of Control (Kelly book)

<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
<p>The book's central theme is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but is much more like a beehive composed of small, simple components.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> Kelly applies this view to bureaucratic organizations, intelligent computers, and the human brain.
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<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2>
<p>Although the book was not widely reviewed upon its initial release in 1992, it gained visibility, was reviewed, and was extensively cited in subsequent years.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Reviews often discussed Kelly's hive-mind analogy as a <a href="/facts/Metaphor/xwsLaqJI">metaphor</a> for the <a href="/facts/New_Economy/JXgdJmap">New Economy</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>Reviewers have called the book a "mind-expanding exploration" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> and "the best of an important new genre" (<i>Forbes ASAP</i>).
</p><p>Critics of the book have contended that its position precludes a critical approach to politics and social power.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://kk.org/books/out-of-control/">The book's homepage</a> (includes the complete book online)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Mitchell, Melanie (October 1995). "Mystifying the Net". Technology Review. 98 (7): 74. ProQuest 195337887. <a href="/wiki/MIT_Technology_Review" target="_blank">/wiki/MIT_Technology_Review</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Turner, Fred (2006). From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 285. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Turner, Fred (2006). From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 204. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Stuttaford, Genevieve (June 6, 1994). "Nonfiction -- Out of Control: The Rise of NeoBiological Civilization by Kevin Kelly". Publishers Weekly. 241 (23): 53. ProQuest 196996078. <a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" target="_blank">/wiki/Publishers_Weekly</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Best, Steven; Douglas Kellner (1999-01-06). "Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory The Politics and Ideology of Self-Organizing Systems". Organization & Environment. 12 (2): 141–162. doi:10.1177/1086026699122001. S2CID 144781438. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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