Ideas Worth Spreading

Sync and Spontaneous Order

SoSouthampton 12- Jun -2013

Last talk

● We assemble ourselves in Cliques ● Cliques has a consistent meaning from

Maths to social science.● Small World Networks● You need lead your tribe to make the

social change and challenge the status quo.

● You don't need everybody, Just few true believers.

● The strength of weak ties.

the Strength of the weak ties

Small World Network

ن ذكر وأنثى وجعلناكم شعوبا ا خلقناكم م ھا الناس إن یا أیھ علیم ھ أتقاكم إن اللـ وقبائل لتعارفوا إن أكرمكم عند اللـ

﴾خبیر ﴿الحجرات: ١٣

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNrKS-sCE0

Obvious way of coordinating people's actions is via authority or coercion

Obvious way of coordinating people's actions is via authority or coercion

army goose-stepping in the parade

Obvious way of coordinating people's actions is via authority or coercion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZIsP7Ttqw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjJbZllETz8

Many coordination problems require bottom-up, not top-down, solutions.

That lead to the question:

Many coordination problems require bottom-up, not top-down, solutions.

That lead to the question:

How can people voluntarily make their actions fit together in an efficient and orderly way?

● allows to deal with certain situations without thinking much about them

● solves the coordination problems for disparate, unconnected people to organize with relative ease and an absence of conflict.

Conventions

Conventions

Conventions

Convention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPICY2SXgn0

Regulating the Pricesاد بن سلمة، عن قتادة، وثابت، وحمید، عن أنس، ثنا حم اج بن منھال، حد ثنا الحج ار، حد د بن بش ثنا محم حد

ھو ر لنا . فقال " إن هللا سع صلى هللا علیھ وسلم فقالوا یا رسول هللا عر على عھد رسول هللا قال غال الس

اق وإني ألرجو أن ألقى ربي ولیس أحد منكم یطلبني بمظلمة في دم وال مال " ز ر القابض الباسط الر المسع. قال أبو عیسى ھذا حدیث حسن صحیح . ...

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

The people said: Messenger of Allah , prices have shot up, so fix prices for us. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: Allah is the one Who fixes prices, Who withholds, gives lavishly and provides, and I hope that when I meet Allah, none of you will have any claim on me for an injustice regarding blood or property.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiXs7oBynYA

Thank You