How is it that a swarm of people who lack any sort of hierarchy or control structure can be so successful in collectively maneuvering a Pong paddle to hit the ball?

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Warming up with an opponent near her former home in Maryland, her sneakers squeak as she slides back and forth across the floor and she flicks her paddle, firing the ball at speeds of up to 70 mph.

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It consists of the player bouncing a ball off a paddle to destroy a collection of bricks on the screen.

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You'll have a soft, stick-to-your-fingers dough that will ball up around the paddle or beaters.

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They also have a real-time, shared view into where the paddle is at any given moment and where the ball is headed.

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Umpire Billy Doctrove initially ruled not out, having failed to spot the ball flick Tendulkar's bat as he attempted to paddle-sweep Muralitharan, but third umpire Rudi Koertzen overruled the decision on review.

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Shoaib returned for another burst but could not find the same speed with the older ball and was not as dangerous, Ganguly with plenty of time to paddle it round past square-leg to the boundary.

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