You mean: let the idiots figure it out for themselves, Nick? --Doug
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > O**** > > ** ** > > 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**** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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