Seeing Around Corners: Artificial Society Simulations
April’s Atlantic Monthly has a great article by Jonathan Rauch on work at the Brookings Institution on simulating societies. The work is revealing how simple rules and preferences amoung actors can give rise to behaviors as segregation in housing, corruption in business and government, genocide, and the size distribution of firms.
The Atlantic’s website has a series of animations from the simulations described in the article. [ QuickTime ]
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