"The formation of living structures such as the bridges is one of the most fascinating examples of the collective capabilities of ant colonies," says Simon Garnier, a complex systems scientist with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who was not involved with this study.
A powerful example of this collective awareness creation happened midway through the Lab journey when we asked the participants to assess their ability to listen, converse, organize, and coordinate.
For example, the knowledge of the collective footprints could be used to improve the overall service like re-organizing the shifts of the employees, or re-scheduling the disposal and replacement of the products on the shelves during opening hours.
It also is an important example of the federal government the collective we acting to ensure that America truly is "the opportunity society".
Among a lot of examples are the collective dynamics of Josephson junctions [1, 2], lasers [3, 4], relativistic magnetrons [5], chemical reactions [6 9], circadian pacemakers [10, 11], intestinal electrical rhythms [12], a variety of biological processes [13 15], etc.
He speaks of his Barr Road pictures, for example, as "the collective experience of coming to, stopping and moving past that place".
Snakes on a Plane is hardly the best example of what collective endeavour on the web can achieve, but it should be enough to send a shiver up the spine all the same.
A notable example is the collective development of modern financial risk management for which the interaction between and among banks and regulators has been intensive (Bernanke 2006).
