Gary Wolf

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

American Journalist

Miguel Nicolelis

We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.

Brazilian Scientist

William Gibson

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

American Writer

Steve Erickson

Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

American Novelist

Warren Spector

The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

American Designer

Howard Rheingold

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

American Critic

Iain Banks

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

Scottish Writer

Geoff Ryman

I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.

Canadian Writer

Gregory Stock

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

American Scientist

David Gross

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

American Physicist

Use 'emergent' when describing events that appear quickly, often surprisingly.

Sudden Events

'Emergent' often suggests a need for immediate action or attention.

Urgency Implied

The word 'emergent' is neutral; it does not imply good or bad, just that it is sudden.

Neutral Tone

In biology, 'emergent' is used to describe plants that grow in water but rise above its surface.

Botanical Context

Plants referred to as 'emergent' usually thrive in wet environments.

Water-Loving Plants

'Emergent' means the plant is visible above the water, not submerged.

Visible Growth

'Emergent' can describe something newly forming or coming into view.

Becoming Apparent

Use 'emergent' to talk about a process or technology still in early development.

Early Stages

'Emergent' is fitting for issues or phenomena just starting to gain attention.

Growing Awareness

 for substantive portions of our operations -- these aren't hobbies, but putting real money into big pieces of our operations -- it was amazing, the amount of companies that started coming out who had an emergent technology here or had a great idea and needed help in getting manufacturing started.

Amazon's climate pledge...

 and now the whole world today the fact of the matter is that it just isn't true and it's easy to think that it is true but in order to see it in another way in order to see that actually texting is a miraculous thing not just energetic but a miraculous thing a kind of emergent

Txtng is killing...

 newly emergent consciousness we have the technology but we have they yet to be fully integrated so self-control and self-awareness remained rudimentary as the human species I would argue is today it's also axiomatic that infancy is the most dangerous period of life so we are

Tim Flannery: Here on...

 A phantom traffic jam is an emergent phenomenon whose behavior takes on a life of its own, greater than the sum of its parts. But in spite of this, we can actually model these jams, even understand the principles that shape them— and we’re closer than you might think

Why the @#$ is there so...

 Yeah, no, totally. And you dig down into it and they say, "Well, you know, maybe they're emergent." Maybe it's like, you know, they're sort of real. Like, we live in space, we experience time. But the actual, sort of, fabric of the universe

Katie Mack: Life-altering...

 become sufficiently complex, and curious to begin studying their own biological origins, not to mention emergence. And what we found in emergent phenomena at vastly different scales is that same remarkable characteristic as the fish

How do schools of fish...

 by the limitations of the way we perceive the universe? We don’t yet know, but maybe that’s the wrong way of thinking about it. Instead of asking if time exists as a fundamental property, maybe it could exist as an emergent one.

Does time exist? -...

 There is an emergent form called multistakeholder capitalism, and it is driving a lot of new decisions. For example, in asset management, almost half of all the assets in the world under management

Al Gore: How to make...

 It'll turn out to be another emergent phenomenon like traffic jams, like hurricanes, like life, and we'll figure it out. The classical cases of emergence are all cases of emergent behavior,

How do you explain...

 these emergent technologies provide an unparalleled opportunity to bring this experience of hope a positive story of the oceans future to all of us in a deeply tangible way what if this