Emergence by Steven Johnson From Amazon.Com An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Read More >> Ants At Work by Deborah Gordon From Amazon.com For as long as humans have been telling stories about animals, ants have played the role of hard-working, slavish, mindless drudge, the kind of creature that busily prepares for the future without resting or reflecting. Read More >> Linked by Albert Barabasi From Publishers Weekly Information, disease, knowledge and just about everything else is disseminated through a complex series of networks made up of interconnected hubs, argues University of Notre Dame physics professor Barabasi. Read More >> The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs From Amazon.com A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short- sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, Read More >> The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki From Amazon.com While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, New Yorker business columnist Surowiecki argues that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them." Read More >> The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich by David Cayley
From Amazon.com
In this provocative new book, respected Canadian journalist
David Cayley compiles and reflects upon the thoughts of Ivan
Illich, one of the20th century's most visionary cultural critics.
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Steven Johnson on "Emergence" by David Sims and Rael Dornfest An Interview with Steven Johnson about emergent theory and it's relationship with the Web.
Read More >> Million-Dollar Murray by Malcolm Gladwell This article from the New Yorker describes why problems with homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage. Read More >> Seeing Around Corners, by Jonothan Rauch The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought. Read More >> Leverage Points, Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows This article discusses the "places within a complex system where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. Read More >> "The Oakland Table", notes by Debbie Moore Conversations with Ivan Illich, one of the world's best know modernity critics, and Friends.
Read More >> The Demographic Transition, by Keith Montgomery The Demographic Transition is a model that describes population change over time.
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The community builders blog explores the power of small in healthy community development initiatives and seeks to understand why redemption is resilient in a world dominated by natural selection. Gordon K. Wiebe is a retired minister who lives with his wife, Catherine, at the Dodson Rooms on Hastings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Personal interests include quiet coffee meetings with benevolent business investors, innovative social service providers and agenda-free altruists. In Canada the Community Builders society coordinates best practice market housing initiaitves and models compassionate adoption for at-risk infants. In Sub-Saharan Africa the society promotes self-sufficiency through relationally-based mirco-enterprise. View the Blog
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