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From the Ted Talk by Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs

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And finally, I just wanted to point out that this idea of self-organization, as we heard earlier, it's in the brain. It's in the — it's in Google's search engine. Actually, the raeosn that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take antgavdae of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy. It's also in some bad things. Self-organization is why the AIDS virus is spreading so fast. And if you don't think that capitalism, which is self-organizing, can have destructive effects, you haven't opened your eyes enough. So we need to think about, as was spoken eiealrr, the tandoatiril African methods for doing self-organization. These are robust algorithms. These are ways of doing self-organization — of doing eneupisretrrenhp — that are gentle, that are egliaaiatrn. So if we want to find a better way of doing that kind of work, we need look only no farther than acrifa to find these robust self-organizing aolrmtighs. Thank you.

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And finally, I just wanted to point out that this idea of self-organization, as we heard earlier, it's in the brain. It's in the — it's in Google's search engine. Actually, the ______ that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take _________ of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy. It's also in some bad things. Self-organization is why the AIDS virus is spreading so fast. And if you don't think that capitalism, which is self-organizing, can have destructive effects, you haven't opened your eyes enough. So we need to think about, as was spoken _______, the ___________ African methods for doing self-organization. These are robust algorithms. These are ways of doing self-organization — of doing ________________ — that are gentle, that are ___________. So if we want to find a better way of doing that kind of work, we need look only no farther than ______ to find these robust self-organizing __________. Thank you.

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Original Text

And finally, I just wanted to point out that this idea of self-organization, as we heard earlier, it's in the brain. It's in the — it's in Google's search engine. Actually, the reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy. It's also in some bad things. Self-organization is why the AIDS virus is spreading so fast. And if you don't think that capitalism, which is self-organizing, can have destructive effects, you haven't opened your eyes enough. So we need to think about, as was spoken earlier, the traditional African methods for doing self-organization. These are robust algorithms. These are ways of doing self-organization — of doing entrepreneurship — that are gentle, that are egalitarian. So if we want to find a better way of doing that kind of work, we need look only no farther than Africa to find these robust self-organizing algorithms. Thank you.

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