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The flip side to the perils of [[complexity]] and [[normal accident]] theory, is convexity of benefit. Innovation, benefit, boon, fiesta ''is just as hard to predict as catastrophe''. But just as likely, if the people you have spotting weights in the gymnasium of disaster are experienced, clever, imaginative, [[problem solving]] people.
The flip side to the perils of [[complexity]] and [[normal accident]] theory, is convexity of benefit. Innovation, benefit, boon, fiesta ''is just as hard to predict as catastrophe''. But just as likely, if the people you have spotting weights in the gymnasium of disaster are experienced, clever, imaginative, [[problem solving]] people.

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Major innovation comes, most of all, from the unexplored no-man’s land between the disciplines.” — Norbert Wiener, quoted by James Burke

The flip side to the perils of complexity and normal accident theory, is convexity of benefit. Innovation, benefit, boon, fiesta is just as hard to predict as catastrophe. But just as likely, if the people you have spotting weights in the gymnasium of disaster are experienced, clever, imaginative, problem solving people.

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