Archive for December, 2006

Automator for the web

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

I remember when programming was a fun thing to do in a silo. You know, building non-networked programs. I remember just sitting down to a BASIC prompt and saying, “What can I make on this thing?” I guess the equivalent of that today is building little desktop applications.
Actually, it really bothers me that I […]

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Ants and emergence

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Today I saw an award-winning documentary on the Science Channel called Ants: Nature’s Secret Power. You see, I have a love for ants, not just because Will Wright loves them, but because they’re great examples of emergence and systems principles. They’re also completely decentralized social systems, making them a superorganism with collective intelligence, which is […]

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