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Smart Swarm - Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World (Paperback)
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Smart Swarm - Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World (Paperback)
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List price R307
Loot Price R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
You Save R61 (20%)
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How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make Us Better
at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done. The
modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but
twenty-first century humans actually have much to learn from the
ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept
of collective intelligence and its colourful manifestations in some
of our most complex problems, Smart Swarm introduces a compelling
new understanding of the real experts on solving our own complex
problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and
technology. Based on extensive globe-trotting research, this lively
tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces
thriving throngs of ant colonies, which have inspired computer
programs for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks,
and truck routes; termites, used in recent studies for
climate-control solutions; schools of fish, on which the U.S.
military modelled a team of robots; and many other examples of the
wisdom to be gleaned about the behaviour of crowds-among critters
and corporations alike. In the tradition of James Surowiecki's The
Wisdom of Crowds and the innovative works of Malcolm Gladwell,
Smart Swarm is an entertaining yet enlightening look at small-scale
phenomena with big implications for us all.
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