Fourth TAICON Lecture: John L. Casti
Fourth TAICON Lecture: John L. Casti
John L. Casti on "Why the Future Happens: Socionomics and the Science of Surprise"
This lecture was the fourth event of TAICON (The Trans-Atlantic Initiative on Complex Organizational Networks) organized by Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH, and Prof. David Lazer, Harvard University in partnership with SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland. TAICON is a trans-Atlantic community, based at Harvard and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) that brings together research on social networks and complexity.
Today’s lecture of John L. Casti, director of Complexia, demonstrated that the future is predictable in exactly the same probabilistic way the weather is predictable. His lecture was given at ETH in Zurich. Discussant at SHARE was Prof. Blake LeBaron, Chair of International Economics at the International Business School, Brandeis University. About 40 people attended on both sides of the Atlantic.
This seminar is co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government.
