Emergence by Steven Johnson - ISBN: 9780140287752
Paperback
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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  • Paperback

    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
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
About The Author

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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