Friday, September 27, 2002

Loops R Us

From Forbes.com: Welcome to Feedback Universe:

"We are starting to rethink science in light of feedback. It is at the heart of the most compelling new inventions. And now we are seeing the first signs that it is beginning to reorganize both corporations and national economies.

"We don't even have the words yet to describe this," says Grand. "We don't yet have the names. Before this is over, we're going to need a new mathematics, a new physics, and a new ontology of the world."


As we get into simulation a bit later in the semester, we're going to be talking about modeling dynamic systems in terms of feedback loops. This article provides an interesting preview.

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