| I've been following this thread with interest. Skepticism is admirable and appropriate, but so, perhaps, is patience. Complexity is--or aspires to be--a science, not a technology (though it uses technology, of course) and science just takes longer than technology to firm itself up. For example, the human race has been working on physics since (or before) Archimedes. It was a long time to Newton, and a further long time to Einstein, and it ain't over yet for physics. I would myself be a little bit skeptical of grand schemes to formalize complexity right now, though some bright person or team might indeed find the magic bullet and then I would have to give up my skepticism. Meanwhile, the sciences of complexity offer a new point of view, which, as has been observed, is worth 40 IQ points right there. On Jul 24, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: I didn't form the question well - what I meant was: what can we do now that we couldn't do 15 years before as a direct consequence of advances in complexity science?
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