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Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel
Does every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly, decentralized models are being chosen for the organizations and technologies...
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions
When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine , Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved...
Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide
Introducing Chaos explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It...
Cyberspace for Beginners
Cyberspace is a late 20th-century word for a world of information accessible via computer technology. Limited only by our imagination and the interface between ourselves and the machine, cyberspace can...
In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems
Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from...
In the Mind of the Machine: Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence
Kevin Warwick has created robots with the brain power of a wasp, and may soon have built robots which are not only more intelligent than humans in some ways, but...
