mishi's review
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
mishi's review
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
mishi's review
rating:
This book gives a vocabulary to trends in technology and consumer culture I experience and sense, but couldn't articulate. It's explains the the history leading up to the present "emergent technologies." Towards the end, it becomes a predicitive.
If you like books with a wide topical range, you'll like this book...but that's also the reason I didn't like this one so much. It references in passing and so many disparate subjects; ants, neurology, sim city, autism, and computer slime mold. It can get tedious and the analogies at times seem stretched. I do feel hip and wise after reading it, but I would willingly trade it for another book.
If you like books with a wide topical range, you'll like this book...but that's also the reason I didn't like this one so much. It references in passing and so many disparate subjects; ants, neurology, sim city, autism, and computer slime mold. It can get tedious and the analogies at times seem stretched. I do feel hip and wise after reading it, but I would willingly trade it for another book.
