This month, we are in Vienna with American systems scientist JOHN CASTI, an expert on X-events. In EPISODE 4, the last podcast in the series, we learn how to anticipate, prepare for, and manage future X-events. RECAP: in EPISODE 1, we entered the world of X-events. In EPISODE 2, we encountered Wittgenstein. measured complexity gaps, [...]
Financial crises, disruptions to global communications systems, political upheavals, pandemics... Extreme - or 'X' - events are difficult to predict, high impact, and cause significant damage. How can we prepare for them, and can we survive them? - Episode 3 - Chrome Radio Podcast December 2017
In EPISODE 2, we encounter Wittgenstein and his passion for simplicity, learn how to measure complexity gaps, and understand how a comfortable plateau can morph into a perilous mountain peak!
XED IN THE NEWS Risk Insights Magazine October | December, 2017 “How human systems collapse – and are reborn,” by John Casti, X-Event Dynamics
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
XED co-founder John Casti will be presenting as the opening speaker at The International Conference on Business, X-Events and Analytics, will be held from April 12-13, 2018 at the Austria Trend Parkhotel Schonbrunn in Vienna, Austria. Learn more and register here
Chrome Radio travels to Vienna to interview John Casti, an American systems scientist and expert on X-events, to find out more. Over coffee and cake in Café Landtmann, we enter a world of shifting landscapes, complexity gaps, and random triggers. In EPISODE 1, he introduced us to the world of X-events, with its shifting landscapes, complexity gaps, and random [...]
Will be held in Vienna Austria April 15 - 17, 2018 Details will be posted shortly
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This paper serves as the final report of the Game Changers project lead by John Casti and coordinated by Leena Ilmola. The project was established towards the end of 2009 as a part of the Extreme Events in Human Society initiative at IIASA, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria). Download
