Whole Earth Catalog – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07:18:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Dancing with Systems — By Donella Meadows | Whole Earth Catalog https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/09/dancing-with-systems-by-donella-meadows-whole-earth-catalog Fri, 18 Sep 2015 01:09:51 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=17431 Unknown

“People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake. They are likely to assume that here, in systems analysis, in interconnection and complication, in the power of the computer, here at last, is the key to prediction and control. This mistake is likely because the mindset of the industrial world assumes that there is a key to prediction and control.”

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