How digital platforms are helping us manage through the coronavirus In our past signal posts, we’ve highlighted many ways that digital platforms are growing and impacting our everyday lives. In this signal post, we’re highlighting how those same platforms have increased our resilience and ability to adapt to these extraordinary times of the novel coronavirus [...]
Resilience and the Coronavirus Pandemic The era of efficiency seems to be over. We are entering a world dominated by uncertainties. Some of these uncertainties are quantifiable, so we are able to conduct risk calculations and if rigorously conducted, we can manage the trade-offs between risks and related opportunities. The challenge of the Coronavirus pandemic [...]
The Corona Virus Pandemic and Potential Implications Executive Summary The coronavirus pandemic is an X-Event (extreme event) that has impacted many aspects of our global society. The conclusions in this whitepaper are the result of applying systems analysis and foresight methods to look at a post-Coronavirus world. The objective of the analysis is to provide [...]
Global X-Network Annual Conference in Vienna Xevents and Urban Futures October 26-28, 2019 Conference Agenda If you have any questions, contact us.
X-Event Dynamics will have a booth at the Urban Future Global Conference in Vienna, Austria from February 28-March 2. 2018. Be sure to stop by and see us! Learn more and register for the conference here
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SURPRISES! While many countries have faced turmoil since 1945, Western developed countries have largely operated within the framework of political and economic institutions that were established after World War II. The blessing of 70 years of peace and prosperity has, however, a downside: there have been no major global X-Events [...]
*|MC:SUBJECT|* Conference Theme: The world in which we all live, work and do business is about to change! But how & with what impact on cities, our social economy and (geo-)politics? Background While turmoil has ravaged most parts of the world, Western developed countries have largely operated within the same framework of political and economic [...]
The anticipation of an X-event is a bit like weather-forecasting. We take the drivers of atmospheric change, quantities like temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind velocities and the like, and use mathematical equations governing the change of these quantities to come up with a forecast like, “twenty percent chance of rain tomorrow.” Here we might think [...]
Crowds, Markets, Moods and Events Book Review by John Casti (Review of the book, The Socionomic Theory of Finance by Robert Prechter, Socionomics Press, Gainesville, GA, 2017) The Socionomic Theory of Finance (STF) is concerned with the behaviors of crowds and the events that stem from those behaviors. Thus, the focus is on the psychology [...]
Winter School is an annual event organized by the Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The 5-day program imparts essential knowledge about complexity and complex systems science, enabling participant to answer these questions: • What complexity is really about ? • How complexity manifests itself in the different human activities ? • How it [...]
