Sublime

Naturally occurring phenomena present us with options to study situations and learn from them.

aggregations of anything from atoms to people exhibit complex behavior that cannot be predicted by observing the component parts.

With technology racing forward at an ever increasing pace, some advancements can impact us on an unprecedented scale. As shapers of the future, we must strive to understand the consequences and implications of emerging technology. We do this by asking ourselves uncomfortable questions about possible outcomes.

New strategies, new things are coming and going and striving to survive and do well in a situation they mutually create. We can describe this algorithmically, but not easily by equations, not just because the situation is complicated to track but because new behaviors and categories of behavior are not easily captured by equations.

Philip E. Agre

The smartest minds today—including those studying computers, biology, math, physics—have come to understand that the world no longer adheres to predictable, linear mandates. Instead, life is filled with chaos and complexity, periods of order and disorder, linearity and nonlinearity. In place of steady lines, observers now see loops, spirals, wobble

Believing the next problem is solvable is a fundamental tenet of the philosophy of technology.

Kakonomics is the strange yet widespread preference for mediocre exchanges insofar as nobody complains about them.