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Persuasive technology: using computers to change what we think and do

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Mother Nature knows best--How engineered organizations of the future will resemble natural-born systems.

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        Ubiquity  Volume 2002, Issue December
        December 1 - December 31, 2002
        40 pages
        EISSN:1530-2180
        DOI:10.1145/764008
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