From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives… — John L. Casti Complexity Copy Share Image
We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has… — John L. Casti Firsts Copy Share Image
When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any… — John L. Casti Big problem Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Kind Copy Share Image
My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which… — John L. Casti Computers Copy Share Image
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are… — John L. Casti Adaptation Copy Share Image
I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take… — John L. Casti Aftermath Copy Share Image
I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial -… — John L. Casti Beneficial Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X-… — John L. Casti Believe Copy Share Image
The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge… — John L. Casti Communication Copy Share Image
The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like -… — John L. Casti Agency Copy Share Image
If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite… — John L. Casti Believe Copy Share Image
Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a… — John L. Casti Alcoholics Copy Share Image
A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles… — John L. Casti Analogies Copy Share Image
I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the… — John L. Casti Believe Copy Share Image
Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time. — John L. Casti Function Copy Share Image
If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form… — John L. Casti Answers Copy Share Image
Once the reality sets in of a superhuman intelligence being in control of every aspect of the infrastructures we rely upon for… — John L. Casti Accommodations Copy Share Image
System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot… — John L. Casti Capable Copy Share Image
At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of… — John L. Casti Accepting Copy Share Image
To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert… — John L. Casti Amount Copy Share Image
In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that… — John L. Casti Events Copy Share Image
The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades. — John L. Casti Decades Copy Share Image
The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it. — John L. Casti Debt Copy Share Image
