Politics. Color. Perception. The Technium. [Translations: Japanese] I wrote a book, Out of Control, heralding the immense power of bottom up systems.
You know: smart mobs, hive mind, web power, amateur hour, decentralized webs, network effects, and collaborative work. Twenty years ago Out of Control made a wide-ranging and exhaustive case for the remarkable things which decentralized, out-of-control systems can accomplish in biology, technology, and cultural realms. Psychology Today: 10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong. Is your gym locker room crawling with drug-resistant bacteria? Is the guy with the bulging backpack a suicide bomber? And what about that innocent-looking arugula: Will pesticide residue cause cancer, or do the leaves themselves harbor E. coli? The Accidental Mind.