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The story of the Santa Fe Institute and the birth of complexity science.
Emergence — Steven Johnson
How cities, ant colonies, and the internet self-organise without central control. A joyful book about complexity.
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Former senior writer at Science magazine whose 1992 Complexity profiled the first generation of researchers at the Santa Fe Institute — Brian Arthur, Stuart Kauffman, Murray Gell-Mann — as they built the field that gave us complex-adaptive-systems language.
Steven Johnson
American science writer whose Emergence (2001) brought ant colonies, neighbourhood formation, and software pattern recognition under one explanatory roof. Host of the PBS series How We Got to Now and an early voice on the open-web's social potential.
More is different. — Philip Anderson — Science, 1972