Neat! Had never heard of him, but this guy's works remind me of what an early thinker on "complexity science" might sound like, who in modern times might be som

Neat! Had never heard of him, but this guy's works remind me of what an early thinker on "complexity science" might sound like, who in modern times might be someone who gravitated toward the Santa Fe Institute.... He's got another short story where he analogizes human social networks to signals travelling over telegraph, which feels like a really insightful parallel to see at the time, when no one was thinking about generalized properties of networks https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Boles%C5%82aw_Prus https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Boles%C5%82aw_Prus