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FORESIGHT IN A TIME OF SIMPLICITY, COMPLEXITY AND CHAOS
Paul Schumann
UNPREDICTABILITY “Most of all, we need to preserve the
absolute unpredictably and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.”
Lewis Thomas, 1973
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OUTLINE Introduction Foresight 1, 2, A Few, Many Chaos, Gaia, Eros Simplicity, Complexity, Emergence & Fractals Examples of Emergence & Complexity Massively Parallel vs. Mathematical Modeling Characteristics: Simple and Complex Strategy Foresight redux Resources
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COMPLEXITY HISTORYPaul Schumann
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FORESIGHT To perceive or prepare wisely for the
future
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1, 2, A FEW, MANY1 2 A Few
ManyNewton BoltzmannGaussPoincare
Simplicity Organized Complexity Disorganized Complexity
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CHAOS, GAIA, EROS Chaos: the source of all creation
Gaia: the created universe
Eros: the creative impulse
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SIMPLICITY Growth Curve (Logistic)
Exponential Curve
Learning Curve (Experience)
Substitution Curves
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COMPLEXITY, EMERGENCE & FRACTALS The behavior of a complex
system in equilibrium is chaotic, in non-equilibrium is critical
Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions
A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity on all scales.
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Complexity
Equilibrium
Non-equilibriu
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Chaos Criticality
Agents
Emergence FractalsAdaptive
FOOLED BY COMPLEXITYPaul Schumann
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CHAOSPaul Schumann
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Double Pendulum
SIMPLICITY TO CHAOSPaul Schumann
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The Logistic Map: x t + 1 = R x t ( 1 – x t )
R = 2x 0 = 0.99
R = 4x 0 = 0.2x 0 = 0.20000000001
CRITICALITYPaul Schumann
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N = a M -2
EARTHQUAKESPaul Schumann
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Criticality
Gaussian
STOCK MARKETPaul Schumann
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P=a C -2.1
2007: corr=0.982008: corr=0.94
INTEGRATED CIRCUITSPaul Schumann
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DataProjection
Fractional Delta
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corr = 0.98P ~ D -1.5
EMERGENCEPaul Schumann
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T1
T1
T2>T1
T1
Bernard Cell (1900)
WEATHER MAPPaul Schumann
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EMERGENCEPaul Schumann
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EMERGENCEPaul Schumann
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FRACTALS To create a Koch snowflake, one
begins with an equilateral triangle and then replaces the middle third of every line segment with a pair of line segments that form an equilateral "bump." One then performs the same replacement on every line segment of the resulting shape, ad infinitum. With every iteration, the perimeter of this shape increases by one third of the previous length. The Koch snowflake is the result of an infinite number of these iterations, and has an infinite length, while its area remains finite. For this reason, the Koch snowflake and similar constructions were sometimes called "monster curves.“
Wikipedia
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FRACTALPaul Schumann
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FRACTAL ZOOMPaul Schumann
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A magnification of the phoenix set. (Wikipedia)
FRACTAL ZOOMPaul Schumann
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FRACTAL ZOOM (MANDELBROT SET)Paul Schumann
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MODELING
MATHEMATICAL MASSIVELY PARALLEL
Derived Analytical Conditional Equation: x = ½ a t2
Predictive
Simulation Describe underlying
mechanisms Rule based agents in an
environment Exploration Easier to add random or
probabilistic events Flexible & intuitive
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STARLOGOPaul Schumann
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STARLOGO (RABBITS)Paul Schumann
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IT’S NOT EITHER – OR, IT’S BOTH - AND
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Complexity
Simplicity
Chaos
Criticality
CHARACTERISTICS & APPLICATIONSPaul Schumann
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Simplicity Chaos Emergence
Criticality
Characteristics
ReductionisticDeterministicPredictiveClosed system
Dynamical systemDeterministicInitial conditions sensitiveAttractorsHolistic
AgentsInteractiveRulesMassively parallel
Complex systemNon-equilibriumUnpredictableProbabilistic
Applications Utility functionTrendsDriving forces unchanged
Scenarios InsightExplorationShaping
HistoryProbability
STRATEGY Understand the system Explore the system Use “what if” Identify opportunities and threats Utilize early warning system (if possible) Look for asymmetries Understand risk, probabilities and outcomes Expand the system Start again
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FORESIGHT REDUXPaul Schumann
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Foresight
Prudence
Insight
Portent
THE FUTURE OF FORESIGHT More systems More interconnectedness in the
systems The reach of a system is growing The number of people in a system is
increasing Therefore: More complexity
More chaos More criticality More emergence
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THE PRESENT “It makes me happy. To be at the beginning
again, knowing almost nothing… The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about – clouds – daffodils – waterfalls,,,these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks…It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
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PAUL SCHUMANN Glocal Vantage Inc, PO Box 161475, Austin, TX
78716 512.632.6586 [email protected] http://www.glocalvantage.com http://incollaboration.ning.com http://www.twitter.com/innovant2003
Twibe: http://www.twitter.com/groups/future #future
Want to go further? Contact me…
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RESOURCES Complexity: A Guided Tour, Melanie Mitchell, Oxford, 2009 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House,
2007 Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamic Systems with StarLogo, Vanessa Stevens
Colella, Eric Klopfer & Mitchel Resnick, Teachers College press, 2001 Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, and Software, Steven Johnson, Scribner,2001 Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen, Mark Buchanan, Three Rivers Press, 2000 Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds, Mitchel
Resnick, MIT, 1997 The Tao of Chaos, Katya Walter, Element Books, 1996 Chaos Gaia Eros, Ralph Abraham, Harper, 1994 Tao of Chaos: Merging East and West, Katya Walter, Kairos Center, 1994 Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop,
Touchstone, 1992 Exploring Complexity: An Introduction, Gregoire Nicolis & Ilya Prigogine, Freeman, 1989 Chaos: Making a New A Science, James Gleick, Penguin, 1987 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter, Vintage, 1980
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Go to Insights*Intelligence *Innovation Collaborative (http://incollaboration.ning.com) and search for complexity. All the resources listed above have blog entries and or links.
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