Smart swarm

The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colourful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, Smart Swarm introduces a new understanding of the real experts on solving our own complex problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. The book introduces thriving throngs of ant colonies, which have inspired computer programs for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes; termites, used in recent studies for climate-control solutions; schools of fish, on which the U.S. military modelled a team of robots; and many other examples of the wisdom to be gleaned about the behaviour of crowds-among critters and corporations alike.