X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything
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X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything by John L Casti
Provides a provocative tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that could quickly send us crashing back to the pre-industrial age: global financial black swans; a world-wide crash of the Internet that would halt all communication; end of oil; nuclear winter; nano-plagues; robot uprisings; electromagnetic-pulse bombs; pandemic viruses; and more.
"I am assiduous reader of John Casti's booksHe is a real scientific intellectual." -- NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan "One of America's greatest pioneers of simulation." -- London Times
American complexity scientist and systems theoristJohn Casti, is cofounder of The X-Center, a Viennabasedresearch institute focusing on human-causedextreme events and how to anticipate them. Casti haspublished nearly twenty volumes of academic and popularscience and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from theUniversity of Southern California. He lives in Vienna,Austria.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780062088291 |
| ISBN 10 | 0062088297 |
| Title | X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything |
| Author | John L Casti |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2013-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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