Everyday chaos : technology, complexity, and how we're thriving in a new world of possibility

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Label

Everyday chaos : technology, complexity, and how we're thriving in a new world of possibility

Title remainder

technology, complexity, and how we're thriving in a new world of possibility

Statement of responsibility

David Weinberger

Creator

• Weinberger, David, 1950-

Author

• Weinberger, David, 1950-

Subject

• Chaotic behavior in systems -- Industrial applications
• Economic forecasting
• Prediction theory -- Technological innovations
• Technological innovations

Language

eng

Summary

Modern science, the Internet, big data, and AI are each saying the same thing to us: the world is -- and always has been -- far more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see. As a result we're undergoing a sea change in our understanding of how things happen, and in our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our lives and our businesses. For example, machine learning allows us to make better predictions (think the weather, stock performance, online clicks) but we know less about why those predictions are right--and we need to get used to that. And in fact, over the past twenty years we've been unintentionally developing strategies that avoid anticipating what will happen so we don't have to depend on unreliable revenue forecasts, assumptions about customer needs, and hypotheses about how a product will be used. By embracing these strategies, we're flourishing by creating yet more possibilities and yet more unpredictability. In wide-ranging stories and characteristically all-encompassing syntheses, technology researcher, internet expert, and philosopher David Weinberger reveals the trends that hide in so many aspects of our lives--and shows us how they matter

Cataloging source

MH/DLC

Dewey number

006.3/101

Index

index present

LC call number

Q172.5.C45

LC item number

W44 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography