Shutting down civilization is actually hard. The fiercer the disaster, the faster the chaos burns out. - Kevin Kelly

Before the internet there was simply no way to coordinate a million people in real time or to get a hundred thousand workers collaborating on one project for a week. Now we can, so we are quickly exploring all the ways in which we can combine control and the crowd in innumerable permutations.

Art is in
what you leave out.

A system is anything that talks to itself.