Thinking about colonies and ants and the web…  I was reading Ant
colony based hybrid optimization for data clustering, by
Amarendra Nath Sinha and started thinking about ants and web and
stuff…  A lonely ant is a very fragile being. Their power, just
like us, lies in communicative action. I use the term
communicative action very loosely, this because in ant colonies
there isn’t much argumentative deliberating… there is doing with
a greater purpose: the survival of the colony.  No real future
I never did like the term colony. I was born in one, Angola. A
colony puts itself in an ideological position where the world
out there is brutal and savage, and peace can only be found
within the colony or by mimicking the colony’s precepts.  Just
like ant hills, colonies have no real future in themselves. They
are a transient state, bound to fail, only to see some of its
members survive and create a new colony. To me they have always
felt like a vehicle for a sort of semi-protected evolution, one
where users don’t have