From the Publisher
How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and
synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and
the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don''t have leaders: they
are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a
coordinator. And a surprising number of other systems, from termite
colonies to traffic jams to economic systems, work the same
decentralized way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams
describes innovative new computational tools that can qhelp people
(even young children) explore the workings of such systems-and help
them move beyond the centralized mindset.