New Post up at CTLab – Complexity & Simplicity
After some tech issues were ironed out, I was able to get this “think” piece up at CTLab tonight:
Complexity and Simplicity in Thought and Message
….A greater flow of information at ever higher speed increases the level of complexity as ever more variables are recognized, understood (hopefully), and considered ( possibly). Institutions that cannot process the flow of information and accurately distill the signals from the noise will become less effective in their core missions, less “fit” as organizations and at a disadvantage to those that can.
A useful approach to dealing with vast quantities of information and resultant complexity is to make judicious use of simplification to allow at least the fundamental premises or understandings of complicated subjects to be effectively communicated through the mass media or social media networks. Simplification will be a vital tool in any society that is increasingly organized according to the paradigm of a global complex system of systems.
….Unfortunately, clarity is not the only outcome of simplification wrought by complex thinkers. The reverse is also possible when oversimplification not only creates gross distortions of comprehension but actively slides towards the construction of powerfully emotive and destructive myths….
Read the rest here.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Thanks for highlighting this, very interesting stuff.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Much thanks Galrahn !