'Out of Control' chronicles 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.

Some copies are : Perseus Books, 1995 paperback reprints.

The made and the born -- Hive mind -- Machines with an attitude -- Assembling complexity -- Coevolution -- The natural flux -- Emergence of control -- Closed systems -- Pop goes the biosphere -- Industrial ecology -- Network economics -- E-money -- God games -- In the library of form -- Artificial evolution -- The future of control -- An open universe -- The structure of organized change -- Postdarwinism -- The butterfly sleeps -- Rising flow -- Predicition machinery -- Wholes, holes, and spaces -- The nine laws of god.