Ant City! (Kano/Thias/Creative Commons)

Like it or not, you’re a part of a super organism. It flows onto the train every morning. It fills factories and towers. It parades through the streets. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind,  Julie and I discuss emergence intelligence in swarms of bees, mobs of humans and the technology we create.

Plus, an individual ant isn’t very smart, but the colony is a flipping genius. What can roboticists and human culture as a whole learn from emergence? Is the ant way of doing things the better path in life? And why are mobs and movements such a threat to The Man?

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