I’m worried about the same thing Stephen… I’ve been thinking about it like an ant colony in those weird glass things. Ant hills absolutely work better. No doubt. But, if you’re careful, you can set things up so that a colony will work. Same said for fish tanks. Are they are nice as a coral reef… of course not. But it’s pretty tough to let a coral reef naturally develop in your house… i suppose it possible 🙂

If we want communities (the Emerge group in the UK comes to mind) to deal with situations… because we know that networks/communities do better jobs than appointed groups in a traditional bureaucratic structure… then we have to do something