Who Controls the World: James B. Glattfelder at TEDxZurich

It sounds paradoxical, but today it appears that we understand more about the universe than our society. We have created systems that have outgrown our capacity to genuinely understand and control them as evinced by the ongoing financial crisis. Recent advancements in the study of complex systems are able to offer new insights into the workings of many real-world systems. While our traditional ways of thinking and problem solving have been strongly shaped by the success of the reductionist approach taken in