To understand the power of emergent systems in our informational world, look no further. This is a video about the extraordinary self-organisational capabilities of ant colonies, which reflect most of the theories applied to Web 2.0 user-led systems, as well as a number of interrelated philosophical and scientific disciplines. Far from being aliens, as this documentary would suggest, ants have much more in common with the way we humans organise ourselves - in our brains, our cities, and our global informatic networks - than we would concede.

The video is a little long, but well worth it…!