“I hope that we, as a species, will get to be as fully capable of dealing with interconnectedness as the interconnected things we are creating.”

Steven Strogatz is a Mathematician who “describes how natural and sociocultural complexity resolves into vast webs of order”. The quote of merit is from a recent discussion he had with Carlo Ratti, an Italian architecht, in this month’s SEED magazine. They talked about the laws that govern urban behavior and how those laws might shape cities in the future. The full conversation is available online in print and in video
In every issue SEED brings together someone in the field of science and someone in the field of the arts in their SEED Salon section, to converse about where their ideas overlap.  It’s really freaking awesome! Check it out!