In Progress Thesis Blog

I read a Steven Strogatz book which spoke of emergence and how lightning bugs were able to synchronize. This concept hasn’t really been applied to individuals connecting through the Internet. I represent this in an ambient light brightness pulsing of the work and the virtual environment of the bugs. Strogatz suggests that it was essential that each individual has an input and output, an input which listens to a group and an output that can contribute to a group. It is also essential that the output can be adjusted based on what the group outputs. This is the same in virtual social networks. Every member has a unique output and takes in information from the group.