We have always struggled as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from those that generations of our ancestors faced, yet our thinking has not evolved to keep pace. We … Continue reading Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World by Ted Cadsby (2014)
For both the rich and the poor, life is dominated by an ever-growing current of problems, most of which seem to have no real and lasting solution. Clearly, we have not touched the deeper causes of our troubles. It is the main point of this book that the ultimate source of all these problems is in … Continue reading We Have Not Touched the Deeper Causes of Our Troubles David Bohm
We live in two worlds. The natural World #1, in which we evolved, and the socio-technical-economic World #2 we humans have constructed. World #1 is a simple world. World # 2 is a complex one. Introduction Elsewhere in this blook, look briefly at the socio-technical history of humankind. Here I summarise that history and explain … Continue reading We Live in Two Worlds The simple and the complex
We have entered a new world that is increasingly dynamic and hyperconnected. This has massive consequences for us. Connectedness In the last 75 years, with the rapid advance of technology, the advent of cheap global transportation, and, more recently, the birth of the Internet and the world wide web, the world has become more connected. … Continue reading Our World Is Hyperconnected The world is an increasingly connected place
