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Chaos creates order: Explore the surprising power of bottom-up intelligence.
Emergence
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
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288 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
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Summary
It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. Complexity is resolved through simplicity. Everywhere the same laws are obeyed, the same swarm logic is at work.
EMERGENCE looks at the cities we inhabit, the media frenzies we suffer and the games we play, showing how individual actions without central planning often create a wonderfully adaptive communal intelligence. In this compelling, revelator…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140287752 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140287752 |
| Author: | Steven Johnson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Steven Johnson
32 year old media guru and cultural critic, Steven Johnson is one of the ‘50 People who matter most on the Internet’ - Newsweek Magazine.
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