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IBM Smart Planet team released a new film, System of Systems. The video features ‘“ from IBM ‘“ Mike Wing, Irving Wladawsky-Berger and Julia Grace, sharing their personal opinions on what SoS means to them, and how we all might find some new ways of thinking about this important subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2br2_twHfw
From the introduction:
“If you look at our planet from space, what you see is something like a neural network with the cities as its nodes, and that is as good an image of the planet as a complex system of systems as one could hope for.
With the emergence of the internet in the mid-90′ s, the world became one global commons. In the past, we could understand that there was some mysterious unity to the various dimensions of life but we couldn’ t understand its dynamics, we couldn’ t observe and measure their interactions. We basically operated like the drunk who looks under the streetlight for his keys because that’ s where he can see.’
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A Smarter Planet Blog – System of Systems