Description

Author: Kelly, Kevin (1952-)

Publisher: Addison Wesley

Pub Date: 1994 (First edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair. Binding tight. No tears, bends or folds. There is a small “greenish” stain along the lower edge of the ffep/front pastedown. That small stain extends, diminishing, through Page 5. A similar stain occurs on the rear end paper/rear pastedown, and extends through last 3 pages. Each stain about 1″ x 1/8″. Very light edge and corner wear. Dust Jacket: Fair. NOT price clipped. A similar stain occurs on the lower edge of the spine foot and rear spine edge corner. It appears at some point some small bit of moisture affected the book’s spine, which caused the staining. NO wrinkling. Light edge and corner wear. Includes ephemera.

Notes: “This book is about the marriage of the born and the made. By extracting the logical principle of both life and machines, and applying each to the task of building extremely complex systems, technicians are conjuring up contraptions that are at one both made and alive….When the union of the born and the made is complete, our fabrications will learn, adapt, heal themselves, and evolve. Yet as we unleash living forces into our created machines, we lose control of them. They acquire wildness and some of the surprises that the wild entails. This, then, is the dilemma all gods must accept: that they can no longer be completely sovereign over their finest creations.” (From Chapter 1). Kelly was one of the founders of Wired Magazine, and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review.