We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology …
Stuart Kauffman has used mathematical models to show that living systems tend to evolve towards an edge of chaos: that point where their behaviour is maximally random while maintaining some structure. Existing at this edge allows the evolving system to retain the maximum number of adjacent possible states that it can change to at any moment, while still maintaining stable behaviours.
— Rage Inside the Machine by Robert Elliott Smith (Page 287)