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Is Johnson's "Clustering Emergence" Really Small-world Network Formation?

Posted on August 20, 2004 by Michael Feldstein

I was thinking some more last night about Stephen Johnson’s new position that there are separate types of clustering and adaptive emergence as I was reading Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s book Linked (which I am enjoying immensely, by the way; more on … Continue reading →

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Steven Johnson Speaks (Again) on Emergence in the Dean Campaign

Posted on August 19, 2004 by Michael Feldstein

Johnson has a chapter out [PDF] in a new online book about “Extreme Democracy,” which includes contributing luminaries such as Clay Shirky and Joi Ito. In his chapter, Johnson clarifies how his thoughts about emergence in democracy have evolved since … Continue reading →

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Designing for Emergent Behaviors in Humans

Posted on August 11, 2004 by Michael Feldstein

This post on a new kind of group performance art gives a good example of how emergence can work in groups of humans. Key here, again, is that the players have no clear sense of the larger emergent pattern, i.e., … Continue reading →

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