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Out of Control By Kevin Kelly 528 Pages. Basic Books. $22.95.
The author of the bestselling manifesto Free recommends a few of his favorite books—at no charge.
Out of Control
by Kevin Kelly
“This book is now a decade and half old, but it's still mind-blowing.”
This book is now a decade and half old, but it's still mind-blowing. It describes how much of the world around us is not planned, or even plan-able, but simply emergent phenomena, governed by probability and chance. Shit happens.







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