... health and health care, and the work-place. The Institute for the Future is based in Menlo Park, California. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAuthors: Andrea Saveri, Howard Rheingold, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, and ... complexity. Mathematicians are revealing basic patterns that underlie synchrony and swarming at all levels of nature, informing our understanding of how cooperative actions and institu-tions can emerge ... constant companion is competition. The two go hand -in- hand, posing a choice at every juncture, a choice that arises because of a basicdilemma—traditionally framed as a social dilemma. 1About the...