"The medium and the message remain the same; only the rules change from one system to the other. Adjust the feedback loops, and a new type of community appears on the screen." Steven Johnson (2001). Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) March 2025. [Changed image, March 31, 2026. Included text in April 1, 2026]
"More than conversation at the interface, it is creative assemblages like these that explore and elaborate the particular dynamic capacities that digital media afford and the ways that through them humans and machines can perform interesting new effects (...) in uniquely particular ways." Lucy Suchman (2009). Human-machine reconfigurations: plans and situated actions.
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"Emergent behaviors (...) are all about living within the boundaries defined by rules, but also using that space to create something greater than the sum of its parts." Steven Johnson (2001). Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software. Photos by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) March 2025.
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