To Dig Deeper

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James Gleick's book Chaos describes more on emergent propertieshow small changes can lead to dramatic effects, and the unintended impacts of designs because of difficult-to-foresee interactions.

Mitchel Resnick's book Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds [23] describes how ants, termites, and even traffic jams and slime molds can be described pretty accurately with hundreds or thousands of very small processes (programs) running and interacting all at once.

Exploring the Digital Domain [3] is a wonderful introductory book to computation with lots of good information about digital media.