推荐理由---中文版
失控
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《失控》,全名为《失控:机器、社会与经济的新生物学》
2006年,《长尾》作者克里斯·安德森在亚马逊网站上这样评价该书:
“这可能是90年代最重要的一本书”,并且是“少有的一年比一年卖得好的书”。“尽管书中的一些例子在十几年后可能有些过时,但(它们所表达的)信息却越来越成为真知灼见”。“在那时人们还无法想象博客和维基等大众智慧的突起,但凯利却分毫不差地预见到了。这可能是过去十年来最聪明的一本书。”
这是一部思考人类社会(或更一般意义上的复杂系统)进化的“大部头”著作,对于那些不惧于“头脑体操”的读者来说,必然会开卷有益。
《失控》成书于1994年,作者是《连线》杂志的创始主编凯文·凯利。这本书所记述的,是他对当时科技、社会和经济最前沿的一次漫游,以及借此所窥得的未来图景。
书中提到并且今天正在兴起或大热的概念包括:大众智慧、云计算、物联网、虚拟现实、敏捷开发、协作、双赢、共生、共同进化、网络社区、网络经济,等等。说它是一本“预言式”的书并不为过。其中必定还隐藏着我们尚未印证或窥破的对未来的“预言”。
推荐理由---英文版
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Introduction .....
2006, "The Long Tail" author Chris Anderson commented the book on Amazon.com:
"this book is probably one of the most important book during the 20th century"."Although some of the examples in the book, after ten years may be somewhat outdated, but the information (they express) has increasingly become insightful." "At that time people still can not imagine blog and wiki and other crowd wisdom, but these were exactly right foreseen by Kelly. This is probably the last decade the smartest book"
"Out of Control" is in 1994.The author is Kevin Kelly, executive editor of ‘Wired’. what is described in this book is that his roaming of technology, social and economic,as well as to the glimpse of the future picture.
Mentioned in the book concepts,what is emerging or hot today, include:crowd wisdom,cloud computing, networking, virtual reality, agile development, cooperation, win-win symbiosis, coevolution, online communities, network economics, and so on. Said it was a "prophetic" book is not an exaggeration.