As our planet-wide digital nervous system grows, it is causing a mass reorganization of people, money, information, and things. That digital information flow has become the main driver of change. And we need new frameworks to understand and anticipate what comes next. One of those frameworks is known as emergence, a term that until recently has been used primarily to explain natural systems—what biologists call complex adaptive systems, systems that can adapt and evolve within a changing environment. Colonies of insects such as ants and bees, for example, use simple rules and networks to
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