Reference: GW Seminar on Reflexive Systems

For several years a group of faculty members, students, and people from off campus met once a month to discuss “complex systems”.  Later we decided to discuss “reflexive systems” as the next step in the systems sciences. The systems sciences and cybernetics provide a general theory of perception, cognition, learning, adaptation, and understanding, whether these …

Mark Zuckerberg: What To Do Once People Are Connected

Mark Zuckerberg Social networking is at “an inflection point,” Zuckerberg said. “When you think about what social networking meant for the last five or seven years, since Facebook has been around, the narrative has mostly been around connecting people,” he said. “Until the last couple of years, most people really had open questions about whether …