Fuzzy logic is the next wave in technology. Japanese electronics giants have, in the last ten years, already staked their commercial future on the benefits of fuzzy production; only recently have European and US companies begun to catch up. Fuzzy logic sanctifies vagueness. It prescribes a new way of thinking about machines, about science, ambiguity, confusion and contradiction.

Bart Kosko, bestselling author of Fuzzy Thinking (Hyperion), Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age (Harmony/Three Rivers Press) and the novel Nanotime (Avon Books), is presently writing a ground-breaking book of science, acquired by Viking at auction, that promises to be just as provocative as Fuzzy Thinking. Kosko is on the faculty of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and holds degrees in philosophy, economics, mathematics, and electrical engineering. An award-winning composer and an elected governor of the International Neural Network Society, Kosko’s opinion pieces appear frequently in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere.