Thursday, February 15, 2007

Global Swarming

Simple rules do seem to beget complex results when iterated over and over again. A honeycomb would not be so complex without so many bees, all at once, following their seemingly simple rules. It makes sense that the same concept could work to track consumer trends. Some of these other things, like a road that works like the Internet, honestly, seem very unlikely. That would be very...I don't know, awkward, for people are always on the road, and if it were to change while people were on it...it would cause all sorts of problems. I don't much understand what Clark was saying about search engines...kind of confusing, not much to say on that then.

1 comment:

Bharat said...

Yes...for example fractal structures can also be derived from very simple rules.I would strongly recommend trying to understand Clark's argument about search on the WWW because it is a topic of high significance in todays Information world

--Bharat