Smart Swarm: Using Animal Behaviour to Organize Our World

When an ant colony sends foragers out to look for food, who decides where they go and how many to send? The workers aren’t even cogs in a machine – they’re the teeth on the cogs and the queen is just an ignorant egg sac. But put 10,000 ants together and they can fend off a rat or cultivate fungus for food. Miller’s exploration of the insect hive mind is fascinating enough, but his real interest is in the way humans can harness this phenomenon to structure businesses.

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