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homes, stores, institutions, perhaps roads and a host of satellite
communications.

As these waves break they change us psychologically; we can no longer
tolerate being unhooked except as an adventure!! No matter if the

details above are totally accurate, the story is clear; emergence as
creation does not stop with an invention; it kicks off a series of waves
as some technologies change us and the way we live and act.

How Emergence Relates To Other Constructs We
Will Discuss

(Business) Systems: are embedded in the context and are agents of

the process of Emergence. Emergence as a spontaneous act may
appear to occur inside a business, indeed some businesses are seeking
to exploit the underlying that spontaneous energy; but, business
choices are always subject to resource, power and command

constraints and so lack pure spontaneity. At best ‘spontaneity’ can be
allowed or encouraged (e.g., 3M allowing its researchers a budget for
their own ideas). As a result, we have kept the Emergence construct

focused the context and left systems with deliberate invention and
innovation and see them as agents in the context acting in their own
interests.

Diffusion: Emergence is the precursor of Diffusion, which is
concerned with the way emergent ideas spread through the context

Networks: Networked interactions underlie Emergence.

Nonlinearity: Emergence involves the past influencing the present
and the present influencing the future. This positive feedback process

provokes nonlinear cause and effect.

Self-organization: Emergence involves spontaneous interaction and action.
That is the very definition of self-organization.

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