BOOK OF EXTREMES

What makes the 21^st century different from the 20^th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social and global black swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory ? the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen again; why social networks in the virtual world behave like flashmobs in the physical world; why financial bubbles blow up in our faces and will grow and burst again; why the rich get richer and will continue to get richer regardless of governmental policies; why the future of economic wealth and national power lies in comparative advantage and global trade; why natural disasters will continue to get bigger and happen more frequently and why the Internet ? invented by the US -- is headed for a global monopoly controlled by a non-US corporation. It is also about the extreme innovations and heroic innovators yet to be discovered and recognized over the next 100 years.
Complexity theory combines the predictable with the unpredictable. It assumes a nonlinear world of long-tailed distributions instead of the classical linear world of Normal distributions. In the complex 21^st century almost nothing is linear or Normal. Instead, the world is highly connected, conditional, nonlinear, fractal and punctuated. Life in the 21^st century is a long-tailed random walk ? Levy walks -- through extreme events of unprecedented impact. It is an exciting time to be alive.
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