Tech determinists imagine the future of mankind and the world doing “what technology wants.” The Computational Age series demonstrates the inevitability of an alternative, human-friendly…
Embracing complexity is hard for many because it flies in the face of what they believe are the fixed Truths of Science. What true believer…
When Scientific American directed it’s younger readers to embrace complexity and place their bets on the future of emergent phenomena, it was doing so from…
Mechanical brains are here. They have staged a revolution. You may have missed it. But, the revolution hasn’t missed you. Quietly and completely, you have…
Wikipedia identifies Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. as “an American-owned chain of domestic merchandise retail stores [that] sell goods primarily for the bedroom and bathroom, as…
Stanford University’s Republic of Letters Mapping Project, featured in this AHR Forum, offers historians an insight into a Twenty-first Century cultural transition, commonly identified as…
The American Historical Review (AHR) broke new ground in April 2017 by presenting in its AHR Forum a series of articles based on what has…
“The wild idea,” according to author and Harvard Medical School Professor, John Ratey, “is to embrace complexity.” Dr. Ratey’s strange statement is part of a…
“The peasants are revolting,” is a 1967 Wizard of Id comic strip gag line, reprised by Mel Brooks in The History of World Part I…
After several generations of “greed is good” culture, servant leadership is back. In a promotional interview for the movie, Fences, Denzel Washington describes three…