Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: new, economy, rules
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 014028060X
ISBN-13: 9780140280609

A spirited and groundbreaking book in the tradition of such futuristic bestsellers as Megatrends, The Year 2000, and Future ShockForget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the tradi

Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: new, connected, world, strategies, radical, rules, economy
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0670881112
ISBN-13: 9780670881116

The old rules are broken. The current revolution in business requires nothing less than a new set of rules. Succinct and memorable, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy. Kelly’s manifesto in Wired brought rave reviews from business gurus such as Tom Peters, and praise from think tanks and business strategists from all over the world. New Rules will wake up the business world. Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means noth

Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Research & Education Associatio
Keywords: guides, literature, maxnotes, frankenstein
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 1996-06-14
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 087891014X
ISBN-13: 9780878910144

MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work’s historical context, illustrations to c

Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Research & Education Associatio
Keywords: maxnotes, stranger
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-07-24
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0878910484
ISBN-13: 9780878910489

MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work’s historical context, illustrations to c

Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Research & Education Association
Keywords: guides, literature, maxnotes, road
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1996-07-25
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0878910379
ISBN-13: 9780878910373

MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work’s historical context, illus

Author: Kevin T. Kelly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: logic, philosophy, computation, inquiry, reliable
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1996-01-04
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0195091957
ISBN-13: 9780195091953

There are many proposed aims for scientific inquiry--to explain or predict events, to confirm or falsify hypotheses, or to find hypotheses that cohere with our other beliefs in some logical or probabilistic sense. This book is devoted to a different proposal--that the logical structure of the scientist’s method should guarantee eventual arrival at the truth given the scientist’s background assumptions. Interest in this methodological property, called "logical reliability," stems from formal learning theory, which draws its insights not from the theory of probability, but from the

Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: wants, technology
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-10-14
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0670022152
ISBN-13: 9780670022151

A refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world. This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology’s long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed. This new theory of t