Review: Steven Johnson's Good Ideas
The Good Ideas. A natural history of innovation. STEVEN JOHNSON 2010 Explains the mechanisms of innovation based on those of nature. A book that is the result of the integration of a lot of information; pleasant to read and thought-provoking. Steven Johnson captured my attention with his Emerging Systems in 2001, a book in which he compiled the work of...
Emerging Systems VIII: Decisions
If intelligence makes things stand or move and is therefore the engine of change. If that intelligence goes from the bottom up, then the protagonist of the changes is the small. If you make decisions in an emergent system you must take the small into account. You cannot model a...
Emerging Systems VI: Conversations
Markets are conversations First conclusion of the Cluetrain Manifesto This manifesto is already from 1999 and with all that has changed the movie, Cluetrain seems to be timeless, and even seems to be better understood now. Jane Jacobs' theory, which spoke of cities with wide sidewalks in which the...
The sidewalks of Jane Jacobs
It usually happens, on April 25, 2006 we had a news item about Ronaldinho's state of mind, as I seem to remember, at that time he was very happy and very loved for being at Barça, however very few people knew about the death of Jane Jacobs, a writer and...