Cover of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World

Out of Controlchronicles 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.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 528 pages
Form
essays

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