It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting.

— Kevin Kelly Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

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