Then the cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her Cousins (like all the natives, Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm up the trees and throw down the big ripe nuts.

Swarm-works have opened up not only a new writing space for us but a new thinking space.

These rules add up to another kind of swarm intelligence-one that has less to do with making decisions than with precisely coordinating movement.