(2009-06-16) Raford Collapse Dynamics

Noah Raford gave a talk on "Collapse dynamics: Phase transitions in complex social systems".

• reference to Joseph Tainter model: Challenge: why are we still here?

• reference to Lance Gunderson and Cs Holling: Pan Archy: Resilience is a function of a socioeconomic system to withstand perturbation without flipping to alternative states.

  • ooh, an interactive Node Box app - ah, the Perception app uses the Graph (Graph Drawing) library which uses a JavaScript library for the visualization. It also uses the Network X Python package which includes Graph Drawing functions

• also throws in John Boyd, Black Swan-s, etc.