In this Pardee Distinguished Lecture, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann explains how theories of complexity can be applied to the social sciences, because cities, nation-states, etc., are complex adaptive systems.
Eminent physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson makes a case for the need for heretics to help keep our vision of the future open and offers heresies on such diverse topics as the United States’ status as top nation, global warming, and the end of Darwinian evolution.
This Pardee Center conference allowed for many highly esteemed scholars and professionals from a broad range of fields to come together to discuss strategies designed for the 21st century and beyond.