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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2296.Emergence_The_Connected_Lives_of_Ants_Brains_Cities_and_Software?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1160849539m/2296.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2296.Emergence_The_Connected_Lives_of_Ants_Brains_Cities_and_Software?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1563.Steven_Johnson">Steven Johnson</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4712762?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>The first few chapters are excellent---Johnson explores several interesting examples of emergent systems. After about 160 pages, though, he loses steam (and with it, clarity of argument), reverting to uninspired and sometimes irrelevant chitchat about the future of computer software. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31609?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>