Tag Archives: Collapse of Society
Tikal Timbers and Time
There is a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science that Tim O’Reilly pointed out in his Twitter stream. It points to resource over-use by the Maya over the course of a few centuries. This would seem to lend credence to former Seminar speaker Jared Diamond’s collapse theories. Abstract Tikal, a major lowland [...]
Black Swans, complexity, financial collapse etc.
A very thoughfull guy, John Petersen, looks into the future and explains what our societies are facing with the current transformations onset by the evergrowing complexity in the world. Being a remarkably diverse fellow, Petersen elaborates further on the widely misunderstood impact of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls ‘The Black Swans’ and gives some other [...]