Re: Business orgs and Re: Decentralization

["Jose' Portela" <j-portela@tamu.edu> (by way of Vanessa StevensColella)]

Miklos Gyorgy (by way of vanessa@media.mit.edu (Vanessa Stevens
Colella)) wrote:
>
> Hej,
>
> > I would like to extend this discussion to business organisations
> > as well. I saw an MIT demo (presented by Professor Tom Malone, Sloane)
> > of an audience - that acted as decentralised pilotes - guiding a virtual
> > airplane through a target landscape . Each person in the audience could
> > guide either up-down or left-right and this was then fed into navigation
> > of the virtual airplane. The emergent behaviour - of course - was that the
> > virtual aircraft was safely guided through most of the  landscape. I liked
> > this analogy and it worked well as a popular demo of decentralised control.

I understood the MIT demo as the result of the average of the movements
performerd by each member of the audience. If this is correct then
statistically is the best  representation of the knowledge of the
population (audience) to guide a airplane. Is my interpretation too
strange?
Jose Portela