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The Evolving Web of Future Wealth

Editor's Note: Stuart Kauffman has a well-earned reputation as a scientific provocateur, albeit one with the weight of data and wisdom on his side. Kauffman, a complexity researcher and biologist of the University of Calgary and the Santa Fe Institute, has argued, for example, that self-organization—the propensity for systems to become more complex without outside guidance—was just as important as natural selection in shaping evolution. (Intelligent design advocates, take note.... [more]