The Complexity Wall

Retun to GC Chapters

Financial Markets

• Credit Crisis - Credit Default Swaps & Collateral Debt Obligation - What???
• Game Stock & Reddit - too complicated to

What are we stuck?

• Rare Diseases - 379 rare diseases cost healthcare $966B per year: study (3/2/21)
• Alzheimers - No new Alzheimer’s drugs have been approved in almost two decades. How Epigenetics Could Turn Things Around For Alzheimer’s Disease (11/10/20)
• Poverty rate - fell to 11.1 in 1973. Lowest ever.

Why do they fail?

• Civilizations - Why do civilizations collapse? World Economic Forum
• Empires - Why Empires fall

Why does economic growth slow?

• We accept slow growth for developed countries

Why doesn't it work for everyone?

• Medicines, Government programs

Social Media - Unitended Consequences

• Section 230 - AI Algoritms that drive emotion - Cambridge Analytica

Covid-19 Pandemic

• 14 days of zero transmission - it's gone

The Last Mile”

• distance in communication to provide services to end-user customers. Requires expensive and complex delivery of wiring to make it usable in one's home