Salon's Andrew Leonard interviews author, semiotician, and Feed Magazine co-founder Steven Johnson about his latest book, _Emergence_, which I logged a few months ago when it hit stores.

The lead-in: Feed magazine founder Steven Johnson explains how self-organizing systems are made to order for ants, cities, software and terrorists. The article is a quick read -- just a brief Q&A. Johnson says that the Web needs editors, and that US SecDef Rumsfeld seems to be giving seminars on chaos theory.

The emergent new order: Steven Johnson interviewed in Salon