Brains, Cities, and Software.
EMERGENCE: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, by Steven Johnson.
"This last privilege is a brilliant example of metafeedback at work," said Steven Johnson, the author of the forthcoming book "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" (Scribner, 2001) and a vice president of Automatic Media, Plastic.com's parent company.
Steven Johnson, 33, a co-founder of Feed, the defunct Internet magazine, and the author most recently of "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software" (Scribner), had a bigger epiphany than most: Sept. 11 was the day he and his wife took their newborn son home from the hospital.
Blending biology, archaeology, computer science and other disciplines, the author examines the phenomenon of swarm logic: the ability of ants -- or brain cells, city neighborhoods or even software programs -- to display greater intelligence collectively than individually, without any centralized control.
Paramedics in New York City are being trained in a relatively new cooling therapy that has been shown to increase the chances for cardiac arrest patients to survive and to avoid brain damage, city officials said on Monday.
POWERED by jobs at Amazon and Starbucks, Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, Seattle has become a famous brain-gain city.
In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.'s "biggest brain magnets," cities where college graduates are flocking, and New Orleans ranked at the top.
Then there are stress levels: recent research suggests that the brains of city-dwellers may be more primed to react to stressful stimuli, while urban living has also been found to raise the risk of anxiety and mood disorders by 21% and 39% respectively.
City Brain was first adopted by the government of Hangzhou, Alibaba's home city, in 2016 to help run operations more efficiently.
