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

Steven Johnson is the US bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, Future Perfect, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites and has written for Time, Wired, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal .

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