Networks or “networkings”

Posted by on Jan 12, 2008 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Go here to watch Deborah Gordon‘s amazing TED talk on ant colonies and other organisations built on iterative interactions. The “network” idea of a fixed social structure does not work to explain how they work; the “networking” one of iterative, simple interactions with simple rules can produce amazing results “It’s messy, it’s difficult, it’s unpredictable” […]