Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How Were Thriving in a New World of Possibility

Modern Science, The Internet, Big Data, And Ai Are Each Saying The Same Thing To Us: The World IsAndd Always Has BeenFarr More Complex And Unpredictable Than WeVe Allowed Ourselves To See. As A Result WeRe Undergoing A Sea Change In Our Understanding Of How Things Happen, And In Our Deepest Strategies For Predicting, Preparing For, And Managing Our Lives And Our Businesses. For Example, Machine Learning Allows Us To Make Better Predictions (Think The Weather, Stock Performance, Online Clicks) But We Know Less About Why Those Predictions Are RightAndd We Need To Get Used To That. And In Fact, Over The Past Twenty Years WeVe Been Unintentionally Developing Strategies That Avoid Anticipating What Will Happen So We DonT Have To Depend On Unreliable Revenue Forecasts, Assumptions About Customer Needs, And Hypotheses About How A Product Will Be Used. By Embracing These Strategies, WeRe Flourishing By Creating Yet More Possibilities And Yet More Unpredictability. In WideRanging Stories And Y AllEncompassing Syntheses, Technology Researcher, Internet Expert, And Philosopher David Weinberger Reveals The Trends That Hide In So Many Aspects Of Our LivesAndd Shows Us How They Matter.