In last week’s post I introduced the idea that self-organization is a powerful force in both the natural and the human worlds. I also introduced readers to the technocratic myth — that the wisest in the ways of science will be able to engineer businesses and societies to inevitable success. Critically, technocratic ideas cannot succeed because they are based on an out-of-date view of science — they rely on a traditional scientific paradigm which complexity science has shown invalid. To...
