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How to Destroy or Save the World
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-62438-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 117 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 224 g

The book offers an exciting, non-technical intellectual journey around applying feedback control to emerging and managing local and global crises, thus keeping the world on a sustainable trajectory. There is a narrow border between destruction and prosperity: to ensure reasonable growth but avoid existential risk, we must find the fine-tuned balance between positive and negative feedback.  This book addresses readers belonging to various generations, such as: young people growing up in a world where everything seems to be falling apart; people in their 30s and 40s who are thinking about how to live a fulfilling life;  readers in their 50s and 60s thinking back on life; and Baby Boomers reflecting on their past successes and failures.

Albert-László Barabási, Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University:

Patrick Grim, Philosopher in Residence Visiting Scholar Center for Complex Systems University of Michigan:

Ichiro Tsuda, Specially Appointed Professor at Sapporo City University, Sapporo, Japan, leaving Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences (Director and Professor), Chubu University, Japan: ”

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Érdi, Péter

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Regelungstechnik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Norbert Wieners Dream Technology Life and Society.- Feedback Control in the History of Technology.- Feedback Control in Biological Systems.- Climate Changes Wildfires Tsunamis.- From Laissez Faire to Greenspan Feedback Control in Economic Systems.

Über Autor(innen)

Péter Érdi, born in Budapest, is a senior computational scientist appointed as Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, since 2002. There, he teaches interdisciplinary classes in physics, psychology, computer science, and mathematics. He is also a research professor at the Department of Computational Sciences, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary. Member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (2012-2020), and Vice President of Membership of the Same Society in 2017-2018, in 2015-2019, Péter was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal “Cognitive Systems Research”, published by Elsevier. Editorial Board Member of the Journal BioSystems (Elsevier), and of the Springer book series “Springer Series in Synergetics” and “Understanding Complex Systems”, he has hold about 200 invited lectures in the overlapping areas of computational, cognitive, and social sciences, in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. He is also the founding director of the Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, a study abroad program established in 2003, which takes international students to Budapest for one semester. Author of some reputable and well-known books, such as (Springer, 2008) and (with Gábor Lente, Springer, 2014), he recently published (Oxford University Press, 2020), which has been translated into Chinese, German, Hungarian, Japanese, and Korean, and (with Zsuzsa Szvetelszky, Springer, 2022).