Category Archives: abms

what drives history?

mcluhan suggested that technologies drive the evolution of media – agent modeling raises the possibility that the number of people in the world also have a significant effect on how we communicate. Specifically: would we have facebook or twitter if … Continue reading

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planning is dead

Long-term planning, in its traditional sense, is dead. The ability to specifically predict the tone, tenor, overall shape, and other details of a corporation, society, family, or any other complex organization more than a few years in the future is … Continue reading

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emergence

This semester’s most prominent theme has been about emergence: the formation of order from the interaction of many individual actors. It was sparked by the book of the same name I read over the summer. It has been carried on … Continue reading

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