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5. Complexity
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The environment is a more complex system than anyone can comprehend in detail. Man-made items and systems are likewise more and more complex. For example, open the hood of a 1970's vehicle: compare it with what you see under the hood of a 2010 vehicle.
If we had only a fraction of the other problems that are putting us in Compression, the increasing complexity and fragmentation of our work in many different fields presses use to move toward what this framework calls "vigorous learning enterprise."
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Compression Thinking »
Compression Thinking
Compression Thinking☜Population growth squeezes all of us on a planet whose resources are finite. To not only survive, but improve quality of life, we must become much smarter using what we have. For practical, effective action, work organizations critical to Compression must greatly compress their learning cycles.☜F1CEB7
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Why Are We in Compression?
Why Are We in Compression?☜Most work organizations deal with much more complexity than 50 or 100 years ago, but we also have more means to deal with it. Beyond that our early 21st century challenges are in five arbitrary categories, each of which is constantly changing. (See the figure and chapter 1 of the book, Compression.)☜FFB597
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5. Complexity
5. Complexity☜The environment is a more complex system than anyone can comprehend in detail. Man-made items and systems are likewise more and more complex. For example, open the hood of a 1970s vehicle: compare it with what you see under the hood of a 2010 vehicle. ☜59C6EF
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Buggy Code »
Buggy Code
Buggy Code☜One can never be sure that millions of lines of code are bug free. Integrating complex systems with a mind of their own has possibilities for unintended consequences, and layering more complexity is the opposite of process simplification. Dealing with this is one of our challenges in Compression. ☜9FDEF6
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Environment »
Environment
Environment☜Not even environmental pros can keep up with the details of environmental hazards emerging from different specialties, so they need special data bases to help them, like that of ORNL (https://dataone.org/). And still we learn too little too slowly.☜9FDEF6
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Vehicles »
Vehicles
Vehicles☜A 2010 drive-by-wire vehicle has 10 million lines of code, going to 100 million by 2015. Electronics opens design space to low weight, high fuel economy vehicles that almost drive themselves. Add on reuse or recycle, and managing vehicle life cycles, and the complexity of our challenges is obvious. ☜9FDEF6
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High density communication
High density communication ☜Evidence of this is the growth of professional jargon, acronyms specific to a work organization, and in the need for visual cues to eliminate message waste. Computers and the web are spawning new terms at a rapid clip. Managing more complexity requires a denser web of communication.☜FFFACD
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Government efficiency
Government efficiency☜An aspect of Compression not addressed in the book is whether government institutions can cope with increasing complexity. Individual citizens cant follow complex issues. Their representatives likewise seem overwhelmed by lobbyists and complicated legislation -- much less its outcome. ☜FFFACD
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