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Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of computer science: After decades of painstaking biological observations in the ocean, experiments in aquariums, and mathematical model-making, it was swarms-inspired computer simulation which provided biological researchers with enduring knowledge about animal collectives. At the same time, a turn to biological principles of self-organization made it possible to adapt to unclearly delineated sets of problems and clarify the operation of opaque systems - from logistics to architecture, or from crowd control to robot collectives. As zootechnologies, swarms offer performative, synthetic, and approximate solutions in cases where analytical approaches are doomed to fail.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
群聚已成為與動態過程相關的基本文化技術，並且是社會協作努力的有效隱喻。本書探討了群聚研究的媒體歷史及其對當前社會技術過程的重要性。它顯示出，對集體智慧的炒作是基於生物學的互動電腦化與計算機科學的生物化：經過數十年的艱苦生物觀察、在水族箱中的實驗以及數學模型的建立，靈感來自群聚的計算機模擬為生物研究者提供了有關動物集體的持久知識。與此同時，轉向生物自我組織的原則使得適應不明確界定的問題集成為可能，並澄清了不透明系統的運作——從物流到建築，或從人群控制到機器人集體。作為動物技術，群聚在分析方法注定失敗的情況下提供了表現性、綜合性和近似的解決方案。
作者簡介
Sebastian Vehlken is a media theorist and cultural historian at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
塞巴斯蒂安·維爾肯（Sebastian Vehlken）是盧恩堡大學（Leuphana University Lüneburg）的媒體理論家和文化歷史學家，同時也是計算機模擬媒體文化高等研究所（Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, MECS）的高級研究員。
