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The starfish and the spider: book review

08/22/200708/18/2017Complex SystemsNo Comments

It is certainly a great book (this is the Amazon link), however, in my opinion, there’s still an important difference between two main kinds of decentralised organisations that should be defined in a more accurate way: structures like Wikipedia have a clear, well defined and global goal (for example, creating…

Web 2.0: A “Sociological” Point of View

08/22/200709/30/2017Complex SystemsNo Comments

A Web 2.0 “Sociological” point of view is probably the most interesting analysis, mainly because it can be really considered as the very network revolution. Web 1.0 could rely only on a kind of link: the one obtained from <a …> tags; its purpose was (and still it is) to allow the…

Time for Emergence

08/15/200709/30/2017Artificial Intelligence, Complex Systems, Computational NeuroscienceNo Comments

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee had his stroke of genius and invented the World Wide Web, he didn’t surely think about its extraordinary present developments, just like a father normally hopes his children’s wellbeing, but he can’t seldom figure out every particular detail of their future. Such a behavior strikes everybody as a strange…

Small Worlds… A little bit larger

08/10/200709/30/2017Complex SystemsNo Comments

Yesterday I tried to answer a question on LinkedIn about the value we can assign to high-level connections (3rd or greater): a quite good question from several points of views. I think that the main problem of “Small Worlds” theory is brought about the huge amount of information needed in…

From Computer to Business Operating Systems

08/08/200709/30/2017Complex Systems, Software, Software EngineeringNo Comments

Many years ago Arnold Zuboff wrote a novel (republished into The Mind’s I) which “main character” was a biological brain; but not a normal, compact one: it had been split more and more times, from two big parts since billions of smaller cells. Of course every single neuron was connected to other ones…