Emergent Thinking

Beyond collecting and storing information, new tools for thought allow users to resurface, connect, and generate knowledge. Whether visual or textual, this new breed of tools encourage users to link their ideas together, find interesting patterns, and create original content based on their research.

Emergence occurs when an entity is determined to have properties its parts do not have on their own these properties emerge only when the parts interact within a wider whole

The ability to recognize and design for emergence is a cornerstone element of systems thinking