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Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
Nicholas Negroponte
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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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