“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them”. Albert Einstein I have been writing a series of articles, “Are We on the Edge of Chaos”[1][2]. The last article dealt with how power is shifting to city governments and their…

“…it is the scale of physics where life emerges, but that life itself is a broader phenomenon recurring across different scales, from chemistry to cells to societies–which more generally concerns the interactions of information (an abstract property) with matter.”[2] In Part-1 of this series I discussed how artificial intelligence (AI)…

“The contemplation in natural science of a wider domain than the actual leads to a far better understanding of the actual.” — Sir Arthur Eddington In Part 1 of this series, I said “I will refrain from saying that Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the basis for a third school…

“But the overall pattern is clear: in case after case, when a model can be created and tested, it tends to perform as well as, or better than, human experts making similar decisions. Too often, we continue to rely on human judgment when machines can do better.” …

Introduction I have taught at Florida International University (FIU), the fifth largest university in the U.S., since 2005 and in 2016 I co-founded StartUP FIU. I have always said that my personal objective for this university incubator was to birth a Google in Miami and create what Michael Porter called…

A Strategy for Academic Research in the 21st Century — Guidance for Early Career Researchers “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” — Michelangelo “While understanding Earth’s interconnected…

Three Industries that Should Be Disrupted in the 21st Century Joseph Schumpeter probably deserves the credit for introducing the concept of innovation (“creative destruction”) into economics. Clayton Christensen, the renowned HBS professor, popularized the term “disruptive innovation” and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs turned that term into an international mantra. Much of…

“However, there is another kind of power, one that is more appropriate for the new paradigm — power as empowerment of others. The ideal structure for exerting this kind of power is not the hierarchy but the network, the central metaphor of the ecological paradigm. …

“This goes to the core of making decisions under uncertainty. That’s what I want you to think [about]. And once you see it that way, the world is always going to look like options [in] everything.”[1] — Robert Merton, Nobel Laureate I recently read an article on Farnam Street about…