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Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks:

Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. Simonton, Dean Keith. Creativity in

But occasionally some would find forecasts that would change their behavior enough to perturb the overall price pattern, causing other investors to change their forecasts to re-adapt. Cascades of mutual adjustment would then ripple through the system. The result was periods of tranquility followed randomly by periods of spontaneously generated pert

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Sync is both strange and beautiful. It is strange because it seems to defy the laws of physics (though in fact it relies on them, often in curious ways). It is beautiful because

Perhaps of greater importance is that he realized that these ideas are generalizable far beyond considerations of borders and coastlines to almost anything that can be measured, even including times and frequencies. Examples include our brains, balls of crumpled paper, lightning, river networks, and time series like electrocardiograms (EKGs) and th

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s

sometimes uses the metaphor of different phases of matter—gas, liquid, solid—to describe these network states. Think of the behavior of molecules in each of these three conditions. In a gas, chaos rules; new configurations are possible, but they are constantly being disrupted and torn apart by the volatile nature of the environment. In a solid, the