Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of
Society and Science in the Digital
Age by Bart Kosko
Clarifies The Fuzzy Future
As the leading American proponent and theorist of the software-design
philosophy known as fuzzy logic, Bart Kosko, author of Fuzzy Future:
From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip, can be expected to have
high hopes for the discipline. And its not like it hasnt lived up to some of
them already. Forsaking the binary either/or at the heart of digital
computing, fuzzy logics emphasis on the shades of gray between true and
false makes it a valuable way to program microchips that guide factories,
cars, household appliances, and other gadgetry that works with the
physical worlds nonbinary facts. It also makes for a pretty slick
philosophical end run around the yes-or-no logic that has been the basis
of Western thought for the last couple of millennia. But here Kosko
announces that fuzzy logic is ready to do more. Taxes, voting rights,
abortion, warfare, genetic engineering, deep physics, computer-generated
art, the quest for transcendent posthuman immortality--all of these and

more, he tells us, may in the future be transformed by the powerful
techniques of fuzzy thinking. The overall result: less government,
ignorance, poverty, death; more power to the people. This of course is
exciting news, and that may explain why Kosko sometimes seems less
than interested in nailing down the details of what fuzz has to do with any
of it. So if its an education in fuzziness you want, look elsewhere--at
Koskos earlier, more introductory Fuzzy Thinking perhaps. But for a vivid
snapshot of fuzzy thinking at its most ambitious, jump right on in. --Julian
Dibbell
Personal Review: Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society
and Science in the Digital Age by Bart Kosko
Kosko predicts the future within the framework of a paradigm shift from
binary thinking to fuzzy logic. There is an extensive index to allow for easy
reference and about 100 pages of footnotes that keep the technical jargon
out of the primary text. The story flows like a science fiction novel in
which the author is constantly surprising the reader with new insights into
the way things may be. A great book that leaves you feeling enlightened
and just plain smarter.
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