2k$ cars ? this is what happen in emerging countries with moped and motorbikes, it has much success.
2014-09-21 3:55 GMT+02:00 Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net>: > Who knows what will happen. $2K cars? Tiny small single-seater vehicles > for commuters to drive to work or to the grocery store. Self driving cars? > Yea, very likely too. Transportation will evolve. Collectively, we will > determine the best course of action. Very few individuals on their own have > the capacity to predict what will eventually happen. The unpredictable > collective principals of emergence will drive this one, not any single > individual. > > > > Perhaps a little bit of synchronicity will play mysteriously into the > mixture as well. For example... > > > > Years ago I was visiting Portland. While there I went into Powells > Bookstore. I was wandering aimlessly down a dark isle my hand reached out > for a book. I'm not sure what it was about this book that initially caught > my eye. However, when I picked it out I noticed the author had spent some > time studying the social behavior of ants. He spent some time studying > these creature because he was researching the rules of emergence and how > those rules play out within complex societies. The mysterious rules of > emergence work with all kinds of living creature from all scales, from > brain cells, insects, all the way up to humans crammed within a city > environment. The subject of ants combined with the concept of emergence > piqued my interest. I recalled as a young teenager I had studied the hive > minded behavior of social insects - like ants. I managed several ant farms > which included the queen. Sometimes I spent hours watching the collective > behavior of these creatures with a powerful magnifying glass. > > > > Returning back to the present I was curious as to who the author was. Was > it anyone I knew? > > > > Here is the author talking about his book on emergence at a TED talk: > > > > https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_on_the_web_as_a_city?language=en > > > > Other than the fact that I could not rid myself of a feeling that the > equally mysterious rules of synchronicity had perhaps played an amusing > game with my psyche, the author bares no relation with me whatsoever. > Granted, I realize I'm anthropomorphizing the behavior of the Universe. But > what the hell. The universe plays tricks with me all the time. > > > > Regards, > > Steven Vincent Johnson > > svjart.orionworks.com > > zazzle.com/orionworks >
