Comments on: Emergent orders are all around us, especially in cities http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/09/10/emergent-orders-are-all-around-us-especially-in-cities/ Commentary on Economics, Information and Human Action Mon, 21 May 2012 15:20:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BenBella Books Press Room — The Vision Revolution in Scientific American http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/09/10/emergent-orders-are-all-around-us-especially-in-cities/#comment-9447 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:20:56 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5410#comment-9447 [...] *Knowledge Problem: http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/09/10/emergent-orders-are-all-around-us-especially-in-cities/ [...]

]]> By: Toby Considine http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/09/10/emergent-orders-are-all-around-us-especially-in-cities/#comment-9407 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:44:32 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5410#comment-9407 There has been a lot of buzz about self-organizing energy load shaping based upon autonomous agents in the last few weeks. In particular, there is a concern that top-down control-oriented signals from utilities may actually prevent emergent profiles of energy use that are potentially much better for the grid.

I wrote about it this morning, was reaching for an economics term to finish the post, and came over here to find emergent behaviors here as well…

http://www.newdaedalus.com/articles/2009/9/10/energy-collisions-and-autonomous-appliances.html

Now if one of you can tell me the economic term I lack…

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