Accelerating socio-technological evolution: From ephemeralization and stigmergy to the Global Brain

Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 284-309

  Heylighen, Francis ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

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