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Complexity and collapse

By Tim | June 27, 2010

I’ve been working my way (slowly) through Joseph Tainter’s excellent ‘The Collapse of Complex Societies. It has proved to be a surprisingly inspirational book (I picked up about it through Clay Shirky’s post on The Collapse of Complex Business Models – well worth reading too).

Ran Prieur made reference to the book in this fascinating graduation speech that touches on issues of complexity in medicine that draws on Tainter’s concepts – in fact almost everywhere I turn the dangers of complexity seem to be appearing just like the cracks in time in the recent Dr Who series.

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