Patrick Frick from The Value Web gave recently a talk at TEDxMunich where he highlighted the fact that humanity keeps on failing to take much needed collective action with regards to systemic challenges. Based on the MG Taylor Rate of Change Model, he argues that the underlying problem is that there is a widening gap between the rate of change experienced in our environment and the ability of human beings to respond. This analysis builds on the fact there is a limit as how much complexity a human can process. He concludes that we have created a world, where it is impossible for anyone to understand let alone control the man made operating system of this planet. This is what he calls the complexity gap. Many of the ideas that he explains during the speech took a generation to mature and are owed to Matt and Gail Taylor who started their
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