Emergence

Resumen del libro

It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. Complexity is resolved through simplicity.

Everywhere the same laws are obeyed, the same swarm logic is at work. "Emergence" looks at the cities we inhabit, the media frenzies we suffer and the games we play, showing how individual actions without central planning often create a wonderfully adaptive communal intelligence. In this compelling, revelatory book, Johnson investigates the artificial emergence which is bringing sweeping cultural and political change in its wake.

Rich with insights into the future, this book allows us to witness the exhilating arrival and sudden ascendancy of a potent new idea.

Biografía del autor

Steven Berlin Johnson (1968) está considerado uno de los más originales autores de divulgación científica. Ha trabajado como columnista en gran cantidad de publicaciones, entre las que se destacan The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Discover y Wired. Es autor de doce libros, entre los que se cuentan Enemy of All Mankind, Farsighted, The Invention of Air y How We Got to Now, publicado por Ediciones Granica bajo el título La conquista de la actualidad.