Shadab Siddiqi: Butterfly effect began with Tunisian fruit vendors � Knoxville News Sentinel

Shadab Siddiqi: Butterfly effect began with Tunisian fruit vendors � Knoxville News Sentinel: "It is said that one flap of a butterfly's wing in Hawaii can set off a hurricane in China. What is known in chaos theory as the butterfly effect deduces that a small change in one place within a complex system can have large effects elsewhere."

Q&A: Biomimcry | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine

Q&A: Biomimcry | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine: "At a time when designers are starting to tackle complex and systemic challenges, Jane is looking beyond human behavior, exploring how the exquisite patterns in nature and sustainable living systems might inform and inspire us to create more elegant and less harmful solutions."

Lifelong Learning @ LPTS: Biblical Warrent (with interpretation) for Collaborative Leadership

Lifelong Learning @ LPTS: Biblical Warrent (with interpretation) for Collaborative Leadership: "That was due to the myth of the “sky god captain” who had absolute power. From that point on, the aviation industry demythologized the sky-god-captains and a new culture of leadership in aviation was born. It is called “crew resource management.” CRM uses all of the loops and feed-back mechanisms of cybernetics to insure that in moments of crisis everyone in the cockpit of an airliner become leaders and every officer has major responsibility for the safety of the aircraft—not just the captain."

Complexity - the simple path to success in development | Owen Barder | Global development | guardian.co.uk

Complexity - the simple path to success in development | Owen Barder | Global development | guardian.co.uk: "Complexity - the simple path to success in development

The development industry lacks mechanisms which are common in successful complex systems, such as specialisation and exchange, and feedback, which drives out poor performance and scales up success"

Tunisia: A Digitally-Driven, Leaderless Revolution

Tunisia: A Digitally-Driven, Leaderless Revolution: "5. Rapid evolution of self-assembling dynamic networks in streets enabled in digital space"

Science advisers must open up about uncertainties - SciDev.Net

Science advisers must open up about uncertainties - SciDev.Net: "There is a need to move from a narrow focus on risk to broader and deeper understanding of incomplete knowledge, he argues. Accepting that knowledge is complex by nature promises to deliver guidance that is more rigorous and robust, leaving policymakers accountable for their decisions."

Control Information

Control Information: "Control information has a number of distinctive properties. First and foremost, it does not have any independent existence. It is not a concrete thing, or a mechanism. It is defined (and specified) by the relationship between a particular cybernetic system (a user) and his/her/its environment(s) – external and internal. In this paradigm, the environment contains latent or potential control information (which we designate “Ip”), but this potential does not differ in any way from the physical properties of the environment. This is a crucial point; there are no discrete embedded properties out there. Moreover, this potential is only actualized when a purposeful (cybernetic) system makes use of it. In other words, the very existence and functional effects produced by control information are always context-dependent and user-specific. A few examples may help to clarify this seemingly paradoxical, even counter-intuitive notion:"