Re: [FRIAM] FYI -- New book on Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization

2008-05-16 Thread Phil Henshaw
E:CO does a great job of keeping the historical papers in circulation and maintaining a good flow of creative papers that apply to management in some way.I’m not sure if the two major strains will converge or diverge though. That keeps happening with all the strains of systems theory,over and

Re: [FRIAM] Innovation | Home invention | Economist.com

2008-05-16 Thread Phil Henshaw
Sure... Well actually only if you put it in context. It's a hidden in sight thing, that it's not the power but the control that makes technologies useful. The economic system is a fabulously powerful way to transform things, but has the problem that it's entropy pumps can't be turned off, have to

[FRIAM] FYI -- New book on Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization

2008-05-16 Thread Tom Johnson
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