Word: waldrop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made me evaluate how you communicate with people," participant Jonathan K. Waldrop '97 said. "You've always been taught to be persuasive and debate. [The training] tried to teach [us] to listen and understand before attacking an issue...
Complexity has been around for more than a decade, and its roots go back even further, but it is surging in popularity thanks largely to two popular books. They are, confusingly, Complexity, by M. Mitchell Waldrop, and Complexity, by Roger Lewin; both authors formerly wrote for the journal Science. Like James Gleick's wildly successful 1987 book Chaos, each volume attempts to convey to lay readers the basics of the science as well as the excitement it is generating among its practitioners. (Mini-review: Waldrop's book, a straightforward, detailed account, succeeds admirably; Lewin's, a chatty personal memoir, does...
...certainly makes intuitive sense that a simple underlying principle should explain such similar behaviors across a wide variety of systems. Indeed, complexity theorists often speak about their science "feeling" or even "tasting" right. Waldrop sometimes jokingly refers to the all- encompassing theory as "the Grand Unified Theory of Holism." The only trouble is, he says, "some people take me seriously...