Andreas Lloyd liked the ideas Kevin Kelly wrote about in Out of Control, but he found Kelly’s presentation frustrating — so he remixed the book into a new, shorter volume, Bootstrapping Complexity:
Remixing is perhaps too strong a word because he mostly simply dropped entire chapters, with a little re-arranging here and there. It is a very sharp but intelligent edit. But the effect is striking. Instead of a rambling book about one dozen things, Lloyd’s remix of my book focuses it on the cybernetic and feedback aspects of the systems I was reporting on in the early 1990s. I suggested this focus needed a better title than Out of Control, which I never was happy with anyhow, so Lloyd came up with a new one for this version of the book. He calls it Bootstrapping Complexity.