Today on the show we have Jim Rutt, complexity researcher, systems thinker, podcaster, and former key player in several technology companies. Jim was previously the chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, where he has been involved since 2002, working in the scientific study of consciousness and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He is also one of the thinkers behind BigChainDB, the blockchain architecture startup.

In this episode we talk about the concept of Game B, what it is and how it emerged, the idea of network attractors in complex systems like human society, and how to prepare for potential collapse scenarios in the future.

In This Episode of Future Thinkers:

What is Game A and Game B?

Strong links vs. weak links in human communication and society

Generational differences in approaching politics, structures, and problems of our time

What are network attractors and how they influence the current socioeconomic system

Searching for The Fifth Attractor – a new social operative system

How to build resilience and self-recovery capacity for the potential collapse scenarios

The cascading of system failures and second-order effects

How to create more resilient basic infrastructures like water and electricity supply systems

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