Steven Johnson

Emergence

The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain conscious even though no single neuron is? What causes a media frenzy? This title looks at how self-organising systems are changing the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780140287752
• ISBN-10: 0140287752
• Artikelnr.: 11087867

Autorenporträt

32 year old media guru and cultural critic, Steven Johnson is one of the '50 People who matter most on the Internet' - Newsweek Magazine

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Here Comes Everybody!
Part One
1. The Myth of the Ant Queen
Part Two
2. Street Level
3. The Pattern Match
4. Listening to Feedback
5. Control Artist
Part Three
6. The Mind Readers
7. See What Happens
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index