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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
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dvf1976
Durham

A story about this — 4 years ago

I borrowed this book from the UNC library along with ‘No Logo’ and ‘Success of Open Source’.

I had worked my way through those two books, but ignored this one.

Eventually, I decided if I checked this book out, I should make an attempt to read it.

I was done with it in a couple of sittings.

A pretty good read.

sskrish
Chennai

A story about this — 5 years ago

Very Interesting book bringing out amazing similarities between ants,human,cities and software…

qwermish
Pittsburgh

A story about this — 5 years ago

Interesting.

Kevan
London

A story about this — 6 years ago

Excellent crystallisation of the connection between ants and brains and cities and the Internet, with lots of tangents to explore afterwards. Very quaint that the book slightly predates the blogging explosion, though, when flailing around the hopeless lack of feedback and reinforcement in web links. But still very relevant.

jddunn
Boston

A story about this — 6 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

This is incredibly engaging and interesting, and is confirming ideas about which I already had some inklings about the general outlines of. I think that emergence may well shape up to be the defining idea of the next few decades. It seems to have its tentacles in a lot of different and disparate fields and problems, at any rate. I want to know more, though this is an excellent starting point.

A story about this — 6 years ago

Seems to crystallise ideas I’ve had for a while. Unlike most science books, it talks about something I know about – the web – so is much more intellectually stimulating.


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