[sledgehammers]

I think about the state of the world every day.

I feel that especially computer science has tought my brains ways of simplifying and therefore understanding complex systems. The world is obviously complex, but the more information you gather, the clearer the image becomes of total and massive changes that are incoming.

We need a new ism - not communism, not capitalism. Something new, better, something addressing the huge cultural, political, technological, biological problems we face.

Thoughts?

[ofcourseyoudo]

Stop.

The world has had enough CS brains thinking they can use data to solve non-CS problems. Most of what masquerades as "simplifying complex systems" has actually been "dehumanizing systems and eliminating nuance in sacrifice to economies of scale".

Make your world and the immediate world around you a tiny bit better every day.

[sledgehammers]

I totally get where you are coming from, and 100% agree, but you don't understand me at all. I'm not talking about data.

I'm talking about the world as a complex system of physics, chemistry, biology, society, politics, economics, digitalics (lol we need a new word for the digital world), its history, present, future. I think about how the technology is progressing on an exponential curve.

We NEED to be thinking about things at this level. Just look where the world is headed!

A quote from wiki: "accelerating change is the observed exponential nature of the rate of technological change in recent history, suggest faster and more profound change in the future and may or may not be accompanied by equally profound social and cultural change."