When I look back over my long, relatively eclectic career, complex systems have been a common theme in all the activities I’ve been involved in.  It started in the 1960s, when I was an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Chicago majoring in physics, - the study of complex natural systems.  Let me explain. Amazing.  MORE >>

But we want to push for more, so ultimately this post is asking for help, please comment or tweet (add @tonykarrer) on : What online systems have you seen that ultimately drive behavior change? What do these systems do that leads to behavior change? would love to compile a list of other such solutions. Need to Change Behavior? MORE >>

In thinking about this question  over the last few years, I started to notice that a number of subtle, non-intuitive concepts that I learned many years ago as a physics student seem to apply to the world of big data and information-based predictions in highly complex systems.  players, is an example of such a system. MORE >>

Dr. Arthur is external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and visiting researcher at PARC’s Intelligent Systems Lab. This second, digital economy is essentially acting as the neural system for the overall economy. A major portion of every complex biological organism, including us humans, is the autonomic nervous system.  MORE >>

The more we have learned to trust an agent (for example, a company), the more comfortable we are likely to be relying on that agent in the long term.  It is a gigantic crisis of trust and reputation for the entire economic system.” They don’t even need a definition of complexity, since that is the only world they have ever known. MORE >>