by Steven Johnson · Scribner · tapa dura · ISBN 9780684868752
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«Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software» is a popular science book by Steven Johnson, published by Scribner in hardback, with 288 pages and text in English.
It explores how interactions between relatively simple elements can generate complex collective behaviours without central direction. It draws connections between ant colonies, the brain, cities and computer programs to explain the principles of self-organisation. It also examines digital networks and their relationship with new forms of cultural organisation.
The work was originally published in 2001, the year of this English-language edition from Scribner.
For readers interested in complex systems, collective intelligence and the connections between biology, society and technology.
