Summary: Who’s in charge? Wilson Bently, “Studies Among Snow Crystals.” Source: NOAA That’s what we often ask about all kinds of complex systems: traffic, language, markets. It often turns out that no one is in charge, that order emerges from the various parts of the system. If you look at any particular automobile, you can’t predict that Route 128 outside of Boston will be bumper-to-bumper at 8:00 am on a snowy Tuesday morning. But if you get a […]
