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A page-turning exploration of eleven scenarios that may trigger the collapse of the modern world
A renowned systems theorist, John Casti shows how our world has become impossibly complicated, relying on ever more advanced technology that is developing at an exponential rate. Yet it is a fact of mathematical life that higher and higher levels of complexity lead to systems that are increasingly fragile and susceptible to sudden, spectacular collapse. Fascinating and chilling, X-Events provides a provocative tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that could quickly send us crashing back to the preindustrial age: global financial "black swans"; a worldwide crash of the Internet that would halt all communication; the end of oil; nuclear winter; "nanoplagues"; robot uprisings; electromagnetic pulses; pandemic viruses; and more. You won't ever look at the world the same way again.
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- Title X-Events
- Author John L. Casti
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 2013-03-12
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780062088291 / 0062088297
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.34 x 0.86 in (20.32 x 13.56 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Twenty-first century, Risk assessment
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
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