The idea of this article (Complex Adaptive Systems) reminds me of the simplicity and new movement of tagging even taggings relationship with digital photos or simply putting your own words with photos and then throwing these into the vast world of the Internet to see how others find your photos and ultimately connect to them. Google's Brinn put it this way: "...tagging -- the various forms of more-precise user-generated structured data we're able to get, the better search experience we'll be able to produce. Today, the amount of the latter that is out there is fairly small but it's indicative of the potential in the future."

It's crazy that people who catagorize their own work (user generated tags) works at all (complex) yet amazing how everyone is moving in this direction, and order begins to evolve and then quickly becomes useful.

From the Article: So if only one part of the church is in entropy, that part that has hitched itself to modernity, what part is showing the signs of complexity, or balance? The return to orthodoxy, to a catholic expression of the faith, to signs, symbols, ritual and icons, evidence the aspects that were missing from modernism. The new direction then is not an emergence to something totally new, but from something deficient to a system that is more robust and complex.

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