enthropy blooms

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 8 08:06:50 CDT 2010


The summary of this book in the link reminds me of Pynchon's aphorism: History is a Step-Function....stepping up
levels of complexity until............................

In 1988, Joseph Tainter wrote a chilling book called The Collapse of Complex Societies



----- Original Message ----
From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 3:08:34 AM
Subject: enthropy blooms

a recent one from Clay Shirky on entropy and TV:
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/

and:
http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=2622

Mx



      



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