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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.
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IInformation, disease, knowledge and just about e verything
else is disseminated through a complex series of networks
made up of interconnected hubs, argues University of Notre
Dame physics professor Barabasi.
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For as long as humans have been telling stories aboutanimals, 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.
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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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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized
much of urban planning in this century.
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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."
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