An international journal making sense of a complex world through systems thinking.
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When too many texts published online, in newspapers or on social media are written, sometimes even thought up, by AI, something happens to the language we all share. The innocent and largely unacknowledged victim is the richness of the language through which we understand, describe and discuss reality.
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No cognitive system, human or artificial, processes the world: it selects a small part of the world and makes it tractable. True intelligence, then, lies in being able to see what one’s own process of selection has excluded.
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An alternative reading of abstention and the belief that every fall in turnout is a symptom of democratic crisis.
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In the language of management, few words enjoy a better reputation than efficiency. For over a century, organisations have sought to reduce waste, eliminate redundancies, simplify procedures and accelerate decision-making. The ideal business is often imagined as a perfectly designed machine, in which every component performs its function with the lowest possible consumption of resources.
