1/30/2023 0 Comments Iphi at spott![]() This is good because it makes sure that only good ideas and practices survive. Scientific theories, technology, entrepreneurship all have low success rate given the number of attempts made over time. Everything progressive about our civilization has come about through experimentation and allowing things to fail on their own. People who make taxpayers pay billions by gaming the system and failing should pay their share just as they collect their bonuses. ![]() The idea is that those who predict should be held accountable for the losses of people relying on the prediction. The solution is to bring in the skin in the game. Medical science has certainly helped to cure the critical conditions of illness but overintervention(as in case of personal doctors who have to do something to justify their profession) causes even non-critical patients to undergo procedures where the downside is far greater than the upside.(Humans are by design Antifragile to a certain limit, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger) The suppression of minor stressors and disrespect for the complexity of the biological systems has led to a long history of medical iatrogenics. This naive intervention is particularly interesting in medical science. The risk thus gets accumulated and after a period does even more damage( A plane crash once in a while minimizes the chances of future crashes but financial blowups are a result of not allowing certain institutions,like banks, to fail in time) Now one of the latest mistakes of humanity is the obsession with predicting volatility and suppressing the risks associated,what the author calls naive intervention. (A rock will be a robust to a certain limit)Īntifragile: Things that gain from disorder. Robust: Things that are unchanged from volatility. The central idea of this book is that anything can be categorised into 3 classes.įragile: Things that hate disorder (a glass on the table will break when shook) The history of computing is a fascinating subject and anyone interested should mark this book must-read.Īntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Right from the primitive world war 2 computers to the macintosh computers, from vacuum tubes to microchips, from IBM mainframes to Intel, The book covers all major developments as well as their influence on further developments. The visionaries(Most prominent among them, JCR Licklider- The name that stands throughout the book) who imagined it all decades earlier and laid groundwork to work towards the goal. The beginning theoretical base on top of which applications were build. ![]() The author starts right where it all began. The only problem with that is that the whole information technology is at the intersection of diverse scientific fields and it is difficult to decode the magic even for someone well versed in one subject let alone someone who is alien to all. ![]() A complete narrative with a beginning and the end(sort of). Mitchell WaldropĪs someone who has been fascinated by computers and internet, I have always wanted to get a comprehensive overview of the whole technology involved. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M.
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