Steve Bull (https://olduvai.ca)·Oct 23, 2024Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVII– Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns…This Contemplation follows from Part 1 (Website; Medium; Substack) and 2 (Website; Medium; Substack) that was prompted by the devastation…A response icon2A response icon2
Steven Welzer·Jan 12, 2021Down from the peakIt’s too much and things will start to go in the other direction.
Albert Bates·Jan 3, 2021The Great Pause Week 42: Taintered PassagesWhen a society confronts a “problem,” such as a devastating pandemic, it tends to create new layers of complexity.
Ernesto Eduardo Dobarganes·Aug 10, 2020Paradigmatic JerkThe acceleration of acceleration towards increasing change.
InOpen Source Futuresbyeddie.choo·Sep 9, 2017Collapse of Complex SocietiesJoseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies is an important, remarkable book, and is a framework that is quite useful to not just look…
InOpen Source FuturesbyScalable Analysis·Sep 19, 2016Joseph Tainter and the Collapse of Complex SocietiesThis is one book that I has stayed with me for a while. It describes the inherent dynamics of how civilisations have failed in the past…
