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“I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.”

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Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon, born on July 8, 1958, is a renowned American actor. He is best known for his performances in films such as 'The Departed' and 'Forrest Gump', and has appeared in numerous films and television series. more

“From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.”

Levels Instruments Financial Creator Complexity Investors Derivatives

Author:John L. Casti

“A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.”

Feels Humans Ends Hands Happens Arms Band Limits Increase Things Happen Tension Muscles Gaps Snaps Stretching Analogies Rubber Elasticity Rubber Bands

Author:John L. Casti

“When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.”

Problem Bigs Suffering Next Events Possibility Internet Crisis Nuclear Complexity Online Killers Flu Euro Big Problems Proliferation Overload Nuclear Proliferation Euro Crisis

Author:John L. Casti

“The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.”

Process Huge Communication Financial Globalization Transport Interconnected Financial Markets

Author:John L. Casti

“System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence."”

Knows Easy Process Simple Couple Capable Emergence Constituents Theorists

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