Kurt Andersen talks with writer StevenJohnson about emergence — looking at the organic ways cultureevolves, what art has to do with anthills. Johnson is the author of Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. He was a co-founder of the on-line magazine Feed.
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