Posts Tagged ‘ Complexity ’

Things We Cannot Resist

We have a problem, and it is this – we are emotionally and mentally unstable; we go crazy for all kinds of reasons – and all kinds of ways, some of them seemingly harmless. Nothing could be more obvious – but nothing could be denied more vigorously. This is our worst fear, and one we don’t [ READ MORE ]

Instant Publishing

  • January 14th, 2012
  • Posted in Science

Wired Magazine - Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us This is what blogging is; this is why it is so popular; and this is why it is mostly ignored. Everyone still wants to be published, even though there are now far more things being published than anyone could possibly read. Even an online bookstore [ READ MORE ]

Using the Computer to Empower Our Minds

This is a continuation of my posting The Only Important Thing in Our World Should be Us. I ended by wondering if some wild card in the deck could save us. Unexpectedly, I may have stumbled on to it, when reading Too Big to Know: rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren’t the facts, experts are everywhere, [ READ MORE ]

How Can We Understand an Every-More Complicated World, When We Cannot Even Understand Ourselves?

Maybe you are different, but I can’t even begin to understand myself. And I am hardly the the most messed-up person out there. There are billions of us competing for that honor. The gap between what we need to know and what we actually know keeps getting worse. Some of us actually believe this problem [ READ MORE ]

Few Organizations Know How to Use the Internet Well

When I speak of the Internet I mean the complex of computer, software, and the Internet. And I use the word complex in its scientific sense – a system of interrelated forces with feedback loops and a lot of non-linear behavior. The requirements of the computer affect the software for it, which in turn affects the computer [ READ MORE ]

When the Human Race Gradually Faded Away

This happened mainly during the 19th and 20th Centuries but started in the late 18th Century with two events – the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. How these two were connected is a mystery, no doubt there was something more basic going on – something that McGilchrist has identified as the coming to power of the [ READ MORE ]

The Rise of Developeronomics

Forbes Venkatesh Rao is an acquaintance of mine – I was one of his first fans, when he needed them badly. I am glad to see he is coming into his own. Forbes gives him a really big sounding board. This overview of the software industry, where I worked for 20 years, is excellent – [ READ MORE ]

Something More Important Than Democracy

Americans are experts at deceiving themselves, and they have been giving the rest of the world lessons in this. Our most important activity has become – being whatever we are supposed to be, controlled by unconscious social forces we are forbidden to think about. Instead of being people we have become something else – so shameful we [ READ MORE ]

People Merge With Their Things

This is natural and unavoidable, part of being human. But in the last 300 years or so, this process has advanced so far it has become a catastrophe – there have so many new technologies coming so fast, that people could not cope with them, and they no longer know what they really are. People [ READ MORE ]

You Only Gotta Know One Thing

And that is this: where all the power is. If you don’t want to think in terms of power, think about money – they amount to pretty much the same thing. Who has all the money? And who has all the jobs? For most Americans this question has no answer: jobs are just where they [ READ MORE ]

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