Systems thinkers see the world as a collection of stocks along with the mechanisms for regulating the levels in the stocks by manipulating flows. That means system thinkers see the world as a collection of “feedback processes.”

And every technology, I realized, was based upon a phenomenon, some effect it exploited, and usually several.

I have been stressing that every solution in the form of a new technology creates some new challenge, some new problem. Stated as a general rule, every technology contains the seeds of a problem, often several. This is not a “law” of technology or of the economy, much less one of the universe. It is simply a broad-based empirical observation—a regr

Therefore, collectively technology advanced by capturing phenomena and putting them to use.

A system is any group of interacting, interrelated or inter-dependent parts that form a complex and unified whole which has a specific purpose. Interdependency of parts put together for a purpose is key here