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Patterns amid Complexity
By Greg Fisher Among the people I talk to about complex systems, a common point made is that the future is inherently uncertain or “unknowable”. I have emphasised this myself in a number of blogs and...
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Reflexivity and Narratives
By Greg Fisher When someone mentioned to me a couple of months ago that the US launch of Prof. David Tuckett’s book Minding the Markets was held in George Soros’ own house, this seemed to make eminent...
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A step in the right direction
By Greg Fisher On Thursday we co-hosted an event with the RSA called “21st Century Policy Development” (21CPD). This blog is a sort of follow-up to that event, arising out of a number of the questions...
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What Could Complexity Theory Ever Do For Us?
By Orit Gal & Greg Fisher Over the past few years, the spillover of complexity theory from the natural into the social realms has intensified, instigating a whole range of new theories and insights...
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Chaos Versus Complexity
By Greg Fisher Recently I got in to a very interesting discussion, which led me to articulate to my interlocutor (and myself!) the difference between Chaos Theory and Complexity Theory. I thought I’d...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Big Data
By David Hales Almost everything we do these days leaves some kind of data trace in some computer system somewhere. When such data is aggregated into huge databases it is called “Big Data”. It is...
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Social versus natural complex systems
By Greg Fisher Last week I referred to the differences between natural and social complex systems in a blog article about FuturICT. I received an email from an esteemed colleague who questioned...
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Chinese Thinking and Complexity
By Greg Fisher Last week I attended an excellent conference in Singapore, which had the intriguing title of “A Crude Look at the Whole”. The title was attributable to Murray Gell-Man who was one of...
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What to make of the complexity paradigm?
by Ben King I would like to thank Greg Fisher for inviting me to write this blog, and also thanks to Rhett Gayle and Torben Kaas for commenting on earlier drafts. My primary interest is identity and...
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Global Incoherence
By Greg Fisher I was recently asked to take part in a roundtable co-organised by Nik Gowing and CIMA (the Chartered Institute for Management Accountants). The roundtable was designed to feed in to the...
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