The Myth Of The Ant Queen Analysis

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Zhuangzi, one of the most famous Chinese philosophers in the forth century BCE, proposed the idea of his unique design and persistent pursuit for ideal society, which is hang no governing power. Similar concepts are brought up in several other contemporary articles. Steven Johnson, the founder and editor of one of the Web’s earliest magazines, focuses on the development of city dwellers in building the city on their own wills in his article “The Myth of the Ant Queen”. He describes the city dwellers as ones who “captures information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group” (199). Similarly, Timothy Wu, one of world’s leading thinkers on the legal, social, and political consequences of the Internet, also …show more content…
Cathy Davidson, who occupies two distinguished faculty chairs at Duke University, conducts the iPod experiment at Duke to make her point of “not requiring students to always forward, learn from on high memorize what was already a given, or accept knowledge as something predetermined and passively absorbed” (54) about a new learning model. According to Johnson's description of "sense of complexity as a self-organizing system" (199), complexity is closely associated with organization and thus decentralization. The idea of decentralization alters accordingly in various situations. However, for most occasions, seeming chaos and apparent anarchy would provide multiple outcomes to organizations regarding complexity and also some other benefits. The process of self-organizing might seem chaotic and it sometimes lead to possibly desirable yet complex outcomes. In Johnson description of Manchester City in his article, the city is describes as "complex because it overwhelms, yes, but also because it has a coherent personality, a personality that self-organizes out of millions of individual decisions, a global order built out of local interactions" (199). The word "coherent" points out
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