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Product Details
Scribner, August 2002
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0684868768
ISBN-13: 9780684868769
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web?
In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.
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Browse Inside EmergenceMichiko Kakutani
The New York Times Book Review
Johnson once again demonstrates his range as a cultural historian....stimulating reading.
Edward Dolnick
The Washington Post
Johnson is a clear, lively writer with an aversion to jargon and a knack for crafting offbeat analogies....clever and thought-provoking.
Tom Standage
The Economist
A dizzying, dazzling romp through fields as disparate as urban planning, computer game design, neurology, and control theory.
David Pogue
The New York Times
Johnson opens our eyes to swarm-logic behavior in our own lives...with wit, clarity, and enthusiasm.
Guardian.co.uk, August 14, 2011
...willing to pronounce the printed book doomed, arguing that the convenience and searchability of digital text and the emergence of a Kindle-first generation will render them obsolete. Certainly, electronic books have overcome their ...
Health Service Journal, September 15, 2009
...How communities evolve gives clues to better healthcare, says Steven Johnson Written by my namesake and resonating with my own ideas on the social foundations of behaviour, Steven Johnson’s book proved both unnerving and humbling. He takes ...
Winston-Salem Journal, May 10, 2009
...THE INVENTION OF AIR. By Steven Johnson. Riverhead Books. 272 pages. $25.95. Steven Johnson is the author of several pop histories, always inventive and amusing, perhaps a bit glib and trivial, considering the gravity of ...
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