Smart Swarm: Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World

Don Tapscott and Peter Miller

ISBN 10: 0007279906 / ISBN 13: 9780007279906

Published by Collins, 2010

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Mint condition.Collins,2010.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(brown lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.The book is new with a small ink mark on the outer edges of the pages.297pp including Foreword by Don Tapscott,notes,index.Price un-clipped.First edition.Heavy book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Smart Swarm: Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World
• Publisher: Collins
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007279906
• ISBN 13: 9780007279906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition-first printing.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health, Mind & Body

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Synopsis

How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms.

A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colourful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding of the real experts on solving our own complex problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. Based on extensive globe-trotting research, this lively tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces thriving throngs of ant colonies, which have inspired computer programs for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes; termites, used in recent studies for climate-control solutions; schools of fish, on which the U.S. military modelled a team of robots; and many other examples of the wisdom to be gleaned about the behaviour of crowds-among critters and corporations alike.

In the tradition of James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds and the innovative works of Malcolm Gladwell, Smart Swarm is an entertaining yet enlightening look at small-scale phenomena with big implications for us all.

About the Author

Peter Miller is a senior editor at National Geographic and has served as a writer and editor at the magazine for more than twenty-five years. He lives in Reston, Virginia, with his wife.