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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Book of Extremes
    sub title: Why the 21st Century Isn’t Like the 20th Century
  name:
    name part: Lewis, Ted G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 184 p. 53 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory – the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen again; why social networks in the virtual world behave like flashmobs in the physical world; why financial bubbles blow up in our faces and will grow and burst again; why the rich get richer and will continue to get richer regardless of governmental policies; why the future of economic wealth and national power lies in comparative advantage and global trade; why natural disasters will continue to get bigger and happen more frequently; and why the Internet – invented by the US -- is headed for a global monopoly controlled by a non-US corporation. It is also about the extreme innovations and heroic innovators yet to be discovered and recognized over the next 100 years.Complexity theory combines the predictable with the unpredictable. It assumes a nonlinear world of long-tailed distributions instead of the classical linear world of normal distributions. In the complex 21st century, almost nothing is linear or normal. Instead, the world is highly connected, conditional, nonlinear, fractal, and punctuated. Life in the 21st century is a long-tailed random walk – Levy walks -- through extreme events of unprecedented impact. It is an exciting time to be alive.
  table of contents: Waves -- Flashes -- Sparks -- Booms -- Bubbles -- Shocks -- Xtremes -- Bombs -- Leaps -- Transitions.
  note: by Ted G. Lewis.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Nonlinear Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Complex Networks
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  classification: QA76.9.M35
  classification: 620
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319069265
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06926-5
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    record creation date: 140510
    record change date: 20151204175438.0
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