Sublime

This library builds on the following critical books: The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, and Michael S. Malone (with Peter Diamandis)

Scientific models that seek to predict the consequences of human actions with some reasonable accuracy—such as game theoretical models of economic behavior—for the most part ignore human individuality in favor of aggregated outcomes.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).

Traditionally, science seeks order by understanding the simplest parts of a system. How does a single gas particle behave given a certain temperature? Which gene in our DNA determines eye color? Scientists then try to develop theories that explain more general observations based on their detailed understanding of the individual parts.

So that’s that: Babbage realized machines could do math. Turing added that they could also run programs. Von Neumann figured out how to build the hardware, and Shannon showed how the software could do things that didn’t at first look like math problems.

studying the collective behaviors of heterogeneous systems of many interacting parts is central to their intellectual mission, is typically beyond the scope of current analytic techniques, and is gradually coming to the fore.