Yup. I finally broke down and got myself an iPod. Kathy has had one for about two years now but I was holding out for two more developments. First, I wanted enough disk space–at least 20 gigs–to carry a significant amount of data as well as my music, since I intended to use it as [...]
It may seem odd, given the focus of this blog, to recommend a book on evolutionary biology. But Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene lays a solid foundation for helping to understand developments in the aggregation sciences.
Dawkins’ main thesis is that evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes, not organisms and not [...]
It’s been bothering me that the only category on my site where I can put these posts about emergence is “Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype.” Since I intend to get past all this back and forth about what emergence isn’t (as quickly as possible) and start posting on what it is and how I think it [...]
Kathleen reminds us that Steven Johnson himself supports her analogy of the Dean campaign as an example of emergent learning. “In fact”, she tells us, “Johnson was quoted in Wired magazine as saying that ‘Dean is a system running for President.’”
Except that, as far as I can tell, Johnson didn’t exactly say that–at least not [...]
Godfrey Parkin blogs:
In the E-literate blog, Michael Feldstein has recently had a couple of jabs at the burgeoning interest in emergent learning, as enthusiastically promoted by Jay Cross and others. I suspect that he’s overthinking it and just doesn’t get it.
If so, it wouldn’t be the first time. However, at the risk of compounding the [...]
