Here are Some Changes to Watch For: Formulas TO Digital Maps and Models; Clockwork Universe TO Emergent Self-organizationl; End of History TO Path Dependence; Knowledge…
Seventy years downstream from the first computers is enough time to take stock. Already, patterns emerge. Even though today’s tech marketers ask us to accept…
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…
“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…