A number of Global X-Network members collaborated with Yoshiki Yamagata from X-Center Tokyo (FoXc-J) to write, edit and publish a Springer Book title "Urban Resilience" The book is on urban resilience – how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from [...]
The X-Press publishes it's first book "Confronting Complexity" by John L. Casti, Roger D. Jones, Michael J. Pennock
Suppose You could predict which incumbent presidents would win or lose re-election? You could predict which genres of pop stars would next rule the airwaves and movie screens? You could predict the ups and downs of the economy? You could identify the peaks in popularity for major sports, like baseball and basket¬ball? You could predict [...]
We live in a world more complex and larger in scale than our forbearers could have ever imagined. Our technology-dependent society has become a dizzying, interconnected web as unstable as a house of cards… All it may take to send civilization crashing back to a preindustrial level is a nudge from what theorists like John [...]