Are we driven unconsciously toward same organizational pattern?
(NEWSER) - In a weird convergence of form following function, the world's subway systems are marching toward a kind of "unified theory" of structure for the complex operations. The route patterns seem intuitively logical, but they have developed across different cultures, in different geographies and economies, and often piecemeal over decades. The "common mathematical space may hint at universal principles of human self-organization" which we're somehow driven to replicate, notes Wired . More»
