Walmart, the Coast Guard and Distributed Cognition
Here is a lovely practical (and little known) illustration of the power and nimbleness distributed knowledge and cognition. Here’s Steve Horwitz telling the story. Please, would those harboring a fashionable indignation about Walmart desist from writing to me. The point is not about the substance of their business, but the logistics of their business and management…
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