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Stephen Downes

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This article is about creating models of society - artificial societies - using network technologies. The technology is an outgrowth of an exercise every first year programmer goes through (or at least did in 1986, when I did it), the creation of a program called 'Life'. Forget about the themes of the article - population growth, corruption, ethnic conflict (for these just reporesent the Flavour of the Day) - and focus on the science underlying it: about the idea that there are patterns in the activities of interconnected entities (including, but not limited to, humans).

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