this book is now selling better than when it was first released That is the good news. The bad news is that after 20 years there have been so few new ideas in our understanding of how to make very large complicated things work. i am sorry to report that there are no new big ideas in artificial life, or in robotics, or in ecology, or in simulations. Most of what we know now is what we knew 20 years and reported in this book Which brings me to the final reason i am so happy this book has been translated into Chinese. i am hoping that a few Chinese readers will go back to the original research papers when they finish this book, and will then go on to invent or discover the radical new principles that will make this book completely out of date. If that happens i will consider my work to be a success. In the meantime i hope you enjoy this investigation, and my follow-up book, What Technology Wants 1515 this book is now selling better than when it was first released. That is the good news. The bad news is that after 20 years there have been so few new ideas in our understanding of how to make very large complicated things work. I am sorry to report that there are no new big ideas in artificial life, or in robotics, or in ecology, or in simulations. Most of what we know now is what we knew 20 years and reported in this book. Which brings me to the final reason I am so happy this book has been translated into Chinese. I am hoping that a few Chinese readers will go back to the original research papers when they finish this book, and will then go on to invent or discover the radical new principles that will make this book completely out of date. If that happens I will consider my work to be a success. In the meantime I hope you enjoy this investigation, and my follow-up book, What Technology Wants