Everything Bad is Good for You
by Steven Johnson | 
Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson | 
Emergence
by John H. Holland |
Sync
by Steven Strogatz | 
The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker | 
The Dragons of Eden
by Carl Sagan |
The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram | 
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
by Steven Novella | 
Vehicles
by Valentino Braitenberg | 
The Web of Life
by Fritjof Capra |
Quantum Psychology
by Robert Anton Wilson | 
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis | 
Simplexity
by Jeffrey Kluger | 
The Social Animal
by David Brooks | 
The Brain: The Story of You
by David Eagleman | 
Incognito
by David Eagleman | 
How to Create a Mind
by Ray Kurzweil | 
The Mind and the Brain
by Jeffrey M. Schwartz | 
Entangled Minds
by Dean Radin | 
Lying
by Sam Harris |
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web?