Bottom-up, bottom-up, bottom-up (continuação)

"What Erdős realized is that if networks develop randomly, they are highly efficient. Even with a lot of nodes, you need relatively few links. Moreover, the larger the network, the less links you need, proportionately, to connect everything together."
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Trecho retirado de mais um brilhante postal de Greg Statell "The Story of Networks".
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Conseguem imaginar uns aprendizes de feiticeiro reunidos, crentes de que são capazes de fazer crescer uma economia com milhões de agentes?
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Infelizmente consigo... giram em torno da Assembleia da Republica em todos os partidos:
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"When agent/artifact space changes structure rapidly, foresight horizons get complex. To succeed, even survive, in the face of rapid structural change, it is essential to make sense out of what is happening and to act on the basis of that understanding. Since what is happening results from the interactions between many agents, all responding to novel situations with very different perceptions of what is going on, much of it is just unpredictable a priori. Making sense means that interpretation is essential; unpredictability requires ongoing reinterpretation. Hence our conclusion that the first and most important strategic requirement in complex foresight horizons is the institution of interpretive practices, which we have called populating the world, throughout the firm, wherever there are agents that initiate and carry out interactions with other agents--that is, at every locus of distributed control."
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Trecho retirado de "FORESIGHT, COMPLEXITY AND STRATEGY" de David Lane e Robert Maxfield.