The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it!

-K in Men in Black
The idea of swarm intelligence is a fascinating conundrum, an intersection between the individual agent and its relation to the greater whole, but I guess the validity of the greater whole is dependent on the formation of a crowd vs a mob. In any case, what I find of particular interest in not the relationship of the agent to the system in its most utopian sense, but of the physicality that allows for the creation of this relationship. While cell-phones may have decentralized modes of communication to break free from government interference, the physicality of these supposed wireless networks still maintain a territorial bounds restricted to those who seek to exploit the information translated through their networks for economic gain.