Well, there's the roads, yeah, and then there's the... Romans are the right metaphor, since much of what's happened in the last X years has been diffusion of ideas--ideas, not measures--into numerous different domains. Like Kuhn said...
Mike On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:21 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: > Hi all, > > I really enjoyed Joe's post and it set me thinking - exactly what > has complexity science achieved? IMHO, one measure of a field's > health is that the field moves forward (radical, huh?). If I look > at particle physics, they now know stuff that they didn't 15 years > ago (neutrino mass for example); if I look at high-temperature > superconductivity, Tc moves ever upwards. If I look at string > theory they ask (and occassionally answer) ever more abstruse and > unlikely questions that might not bear any relation to the real > world but are at least based on what was asked before. > > So here's the question: in the field of complexity science, exactly > what can we do now that we could not do 15 years ago? > > Robert > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
