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The problem (the advantage?) of being old is that there is such an obvious escape hatch. N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 11:58 AM To: Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] All Together Now - NYTimes.com Interesting premise from Tom's latest op-ed piece: http://goo.gl/rm3Te We're going through 4 huge shifts in the world, and no one has any idea how to manage them: Quote: Now let me say that in English: the European Union is cracking up. The Arab world is cracking up. China's growth model is under pressure and America's credit-driven capitalist model has suffered a warning heart attack and needs a total rethink. Recasting any one of these alone would be huge. Doing all four at once - when the world has never been more interconnected - is mind-boggling. We are again "present at the creation" - but of what? The first (the EU) freaks me out most, both because it's extraordinarily difficult to manage, and because no one in the US seems to see how important it is. Worth a read. -- Owen
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