Good idea, although it would be even better if you mention the link to the page, too. I cannot find the page. Unintended consequences and side effects in the...
Scientific American lists the top science stories of 2005. Long believed extinct, the ivory-billed woodpecker was detected in the Big Woods of Arkansas;...
I apologize. It would have helped to have included the web address of the Museum of Unintended Consequences. I really do invite your participation. It is ...
Interesting page. I hope many will participate. The keyword "Prohibition and Banning in general" reminds me of a funny story our professor has told us. The...
Consoles herald games revolution - Over the next 12 months, the most powerful piece of technology in the home is likely to be the games console in the living...
Google's top terms in 2005: 1: Janet Jackson 2: Hurricane Katrina 3: Tsunami 4: Xbox 360 5: Brad Pitt 6: Michael Jackson 7: American Idol 8: Britney Spears 9:...
The book, "Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences" by Edward Tenner, 1996, Knopf, is all about this. I wrote a review of...
"With cancer, a person may inherit a predisposition that helps set the process off, but it can take decades - even a lifetime - to accumulate the additional...
I have posted a new preprint on "Engineering and Emergence", it is a recycled paper which has been rejected at a major agent conference before, so it is not...
Every year "The Edge" asks over 100 top scientists and thinkers a question, and the responses are fascinating and widely quoted. This year, psychologist Steven...
There is an interesting book about "Social Emergence: Societies As Complex Systems", by R. Keith Sawyer, Cambridge University Press, 2005. I have not read it ...
J, Perhaps the argument is too simple. I have wondered about organizations such as Al Quaida. Though it was "started" by Osama, it really started a long time...
... From Jochen Fromm ... I feel in some way that societies and organizations are the ultimate example of multi-agent systems with intelligent agents. If they...
Interesting answer. I haven't thought of the bottom-up influence through sessions, meetings and seminars, for instance. They are not always desirable, which is...
Mike, Al-Qaeda or al-Qa'ida is a good example. In Arabic it means only "the foundation" or "the base", just as Al-Jazeera means "the island". And I think the ...
... I'm guessing you haven't been working much in corporations. In my experience getting or giving feedback is nearly all managers do, all the time. Full days ...
... Administrative hierarchies ignore that there are functional feedbacks. The administrative tree is supposed to represent a two-way flow. When the upward ...
... This is basically a statement that you have to consider the balance of the system as a whole, rather than simply target the problematic outbreak. In terms...
Islamic judge blames last year's tsunami on wicked women in Aceh being evil whores. Looks like some still live in the same primitive world as our ancestors...
Christopher Alexander is an architect, but the following quotes also apply to artists, authors, composers and software engineers: "Each one of us has,...
Workshop on the Evolution of Complexity as a part of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems: ALife X June 3rd,...
Internet groups like Google Groups, Yahoo! Groups, MSN Groups and WIKIs share a common social phenomenon. One can call it perhaps "group threshold", ...
What I have tried to describe in the last posting is a phenomenon that could be called "emergence of self-organization": -the absence of self-organization in...
A new nature article about changing "dark energy". Astronomers are enviable. They have it simple, if they don't know where a phenomenon comes from or if they...
Businessweek has an article about Rick Rashid (Dr. Richard F. Rashid), Microsoft's top researcher and "Senior Vice President of Microsoft Research". An...
The problems in the engineering of complex biological systems seem to be similar to the problems in the engineering of complex distributed systems in computer...
This quarter, I'm teaching a course on complex systems. I've decided to jump right in and define emergence at the start of the course. I've extracted some of...
Hi, Not sure of ROOMS instead of WINDOWS. But I know for sure a colleague of Dr. Rick Rashid, Dr. Kentaro Toyama is working on visualisation and digital...
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