Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see. We are now able to harness the complexity of an immense amount of data around us, and strategies that avoid anticipating the future altogether, such as A/B testing, Minimum Viable Products, open platforms, and user-modifiable video games, are becoming increasingly popular. David Weinberger's book "Make. More. Future" encourages us to create as many possibilities as we can, resulting in a world no longer focused on limitations but optimized for possibilities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 14 May 2019
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we have allowed ourselves to see. Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it is revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing, and with it, our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our world. This affects everything, from how we approach our everyday lives to how we make moral decisions and how we run our businesses.

Take machine learning, which makes better predictions about weather, medical diagnoses, and product performance than we do but often does so at the expense of our understanding of how it arrived at those predictions. While this can be dangerous, accepting it is also liberating, for it enables us to harness the complexity of an immense amount of data around us. We are also turning to strategies that avoid anticipating the future altogether, such as A/B testing, minimum viable products, open platforms, and user-modifiable video games. We even take for granted that a simple hashtag can organize unplanned, leaderless movements such as #MeToo.

Through stories from history, business, and technology, philosopher and technologist David Weinberger finds the unifying truths lying below the surface of the tools we take for granted and a future in which our best strategy often requires holding back from anticipating and instead creating as many possibilities as we can. The book's imperative for business and beyond is simple: Make. More. Future. The result is a world no longer focused on limitations but optimized for possibilities.

Weight: 462g
Dimension: 166 x 242 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781633693951