The ingenuity gapThomas F. Homer Dixon
The ingenuity gap
by Thomas F. Homer Dixon · first published 2001
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I'd like to add honourary mentions for Jane Jacobs' last book, Dark Age Ahead and Thomas Homer-Dixon's book The Ingenuity Gap. http://raisethehammer.org/blog/455/
on “Why nations fail” ↗…to operate that infrastructure, but they may not necessarily understand it to the depth required to react properly when it fails or when it needs updating, etc.. There's a 20+ year old book called The Ingenuity Gap that addresses this exact challenge with complex systems that we aren't equipped to do much more than "keep the lights on".. It definitely feels like we are running up against similar situations in the…
on “I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing” ↗In the Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon, he covers the prognostications of futurists and discovers that they are wildy wrong something like 91% of the time.
on “What the World Will Look Like by 2050” ↗