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Shifting Paradigms - Great Reset
My wife thought it would be a good idea to get the book COVID-19: The Great Reset just to get the perspective of Klauss Schwab. A macro-view can surely be insightful, especially from the Chairman of the World Economic Forum. We love deep diving together.
The graphic is the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Interconnections Map 2020. It’s worth the look and might provide some insights. If you’re interested… https://amzn.to/3siIhpS
We aren’t very far into the book, though he has defined Interdependence, Velocity and Complexity as focal areas. Schwab states that one word that distils the 21st century would be ‘interdependence,’ and that tech progress and globalization creates the velocity of it. He makes a comment about complexity that I took issue with, but from a different perspective.
I’ll make a comment after I quote, “Complex systems are often characterized by an absence of visible causal links between their elements, which makes them virtually impossible to predict. Deep in ourselves, we sense that the more complex a system is, the greater the likelihood that something might go wrong and that an accident or an aberration might occur and propagate.”
Regarding the latter, there’s a counter I’d like to offer and it flies in the face of the modern physics’ concept of entropy. He states a belief system, imho…