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200 10$aBook of Extremes $eWhy the 21st Century Isn?t Like the 20th Century /$fby Ted G. Lewis
205   $a1st ed. 2014.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Copernicus,$d2014.
215   $a1 online resource (190 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a1-322-04020-6 
311   $a3-319-06925-X 
327   $aWaves -- Flashes -- Sparks -- Booms -- Bubbles -- Shocks -- Xtremes -- Bombs -- Leaps -- Transitions.
330   $aWhat makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory ? the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen again; why social networks in the virtual world behave like flashmobs in the physical world; why financial bubbles blow up in our faces and will grow and burst again; why the rich get richer and will continue to get richer regardless of governmental policies; why the future of economic wealth and national power lies in comparative advantage and global trade; why natural disasters will continue to get bigger and happen more frequently; and why the Internet ? invented by the US -- is headed for a global monopoly controlled by a non-US corporation. It is also about the extreme innovations and heroic innovators yet to be discovered and recognized over the next 100 years.Complexity theory combines the predictable with the unpredictable. It assumes a nonlinear world of long-tailed distributions instead of the classical linear world of normal distributions. In the complex 21st century, almost nothing is linear or normal. Instead, the world is highly connected, conditional, nonlinear, fractal, and punctuated. Life in the 21st century is a long-tailed random walk ? Levy walks -- through extreme events of unprecedented impact. It is an exciting time to be alive.
606   $aComputational complexity
606   $aStatistical physics
606   $aPhysics
606   $aHistory
606   $aComplexity$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T11022
606   $aApplications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P33020
606   $aApplications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P33010
606   $aHistory, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/700000
615  0$aComputational complexity.
615  0$aStatistical physics.
615  0$aPhysics.
615  0$aHistory.
615 14$aComplexity.
615 24$aApplications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory.
615 24$aApplications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.
615 24$aHistory, general.
676   $a531.1133
676   $a620
676   $a621
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700   $aLewis$b Ted G$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0746031
906   $aBOOK
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997   $aUNINA