Ants are actually quite inefficient workers. Half the time they are going somewhere pointless. But that's an acceptable evolutionary trade-off for them and as a

Ants are actually quite inefficient workers. Half the time they are going somewhere pointless. But that's an acceptable evolutionary trade-off for them and as a whole they can still survive effectively . I don't think it is helpful to cast email interaction, comments, phone calls, documentation, and webcast meetings as mere 'markers to achieve stigmergy'. Human beings are capable of far more complex, far higher bandwidth communication than ants, of which all of these are examples. We can, for instance, inform others of a problem and simultaneously let them know someone is already working on it. For the same problem, many ants will flock towards the problem, even if it turns out to be a false alarm or something quickly solved by the first ant to arrive or ... Humans have the ability to immediately convey information about far away (in space or time) places to far away places and to immediately update that information. Perhaps there are things to be learned from ants, but this article does not make it clear to me what that is.