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The film Memento, which I saw just after reading the pages on Amorphous Computing, is a good reminder of how important good coordination is for reliable computation. (It's on general release here, I guess it may be on video in the States by now...).
It was interesting to see that the summary of Sussman's talk emphasised that he *didn't* think much of emergent behaviour, but was trying to make things deterministic (there was a time when I thought emergent behaviour would be pretty neat; then I tried writing some code and started to see just how inefficient and unpredictable it was).
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