The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants - PriceonomicsPhoto by Steve Jurvetson What does the Internet have in common with an ant colony? More than you might think. The Internet doesn’t have much in common with the common ant, of course. As the anteater in Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach puts it, “Just as you would never confuse an individual tree with a forest, so here you must not take an ant for the colony.” It’s a fanciful chapter: the ante
