A new guide for designers encourages them to create products that stay in closed loops and business models that discourage waste.

Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Did a similar tool help propel Donald Trump to victory?

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So I look at the landscape, as many of you do, and try to figure out how to move the right levers to avoid those futures. But every lever you can move makes another lever move in the other direction. For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction ...Nobody But Us is going to set the initial conditions for the future of the Internet. Nobody But Us — those of us in this room, and our communities outside of this room, and our opponents who want to abuse the Internet to control us or steal from us or attack us — is going to determine which science fictional future we’re going to live in, whether it looks like the Maelstrom, or Big Brother, or both, or neither. Nobody But Us is going to create the future that we want. We are the butterflies. This is water. It’s up to us, all of us, chaos muppets and order muppets alike, to fight dystopia.

"This year, our priority is customer experience.  Everything we do must connect to that." "We'll upgrade the network in a neighborhood when the bandwidth utilization exceeds 80%." "I'm going to get rich, then I'll be happy." Good ideas, on the surface.  Problem is: they're often wrong. And they share a common thought pattern..."

So this is pretty basic.  But it's huge. Problem: You are working at a bank and have been tasked with developing a new customer care program.  You're making good progress, and reach out one day to a colleague for their ideas.  Word of the meeting gets around, and an executive walks into your office one…

We could easily let this massive clockwork of complexity overwhelm us. If it’s all connected, where and how shall I intervene? Isn’t it all too big for me to do anything about? Again, this is the beauty of interdependence. Tug at the right piece of frayed string and the whole rug will unravel before you....Humanity needs to think systemically. We need to act from a place of holistic insight.

Nobody understands why deep neural networks are so good at solving complex problems. Now physicists say the secret is buried in the laws of physics.

"I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship"

Making decisions based on invisible inputs is like building a sky scraper without a blue-print. Yet that is the norm, even for very complex problems

In the swirl of events, I'm often left wondering if there's something deeper going on.  Our leaders seem to be increasingly missing the bigger picture.  A glimpse, here and there, into the underlying cause of dead ends we've reached: problems with capitalism, the media, politics, climate, conflict, health care.   Is there a common cause? ..."

"In this time of unprecedented global change, we need to be rooted in reality more than ever. Yet it is quite clear — by simply tracking all the ways people make an exodus from “the real” on a daily basis — that we are not doing this individually or as a collective humanity....there is a profound disconnect between what is needed and the outcomes we are getting....it is essential that we learn how to discern what is really going on. This means disconnecting from the endless streams of novelty on our social media feeds. It means studying the cultural logics of our political and economic systems. Deeply and thoroughly, it means understanding the history of what brought us to this period of mass turbulence that is now changing the very chemistry of our planet — and redefining our place in the world....What we aren’t doing is putting all the pieces together and acting on what we would see if we did so. As a knowledge synthesizer myself, I see where many of the patterns converge. But more watchful eyes are sorely needed. And better ways of coordinating ourselves toward collective action must follow from what we see together. This means we need a LOT more people connecting with reality.

"...executives started to base all of their business decisions on the goal of boosting their firms’ stock prices. When corporations become financialized, executives turn their attention away from investing in the productive capabilities of employees, which is the basic building block for rising American living standards. They also tend to allocate fewer resources to research and development, which is where innovation happens. Instead, executives watch the stock market — in large part because their own compensation was increasingly based on the value of the company’s shares."

"There is a big mistake that many companies are making, spending too much time on their data."