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<![CDATA[Protect the Future!]]>
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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:22:14 -0500
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<![CDATA[April 16, 2009 9:02 PM]]>
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<![CDATA[Chris, love the tagline- "protect the future." Do you think we're living in a time where more is at stake, or does it just feel that way since we have more access to news and information than ever before?]]>
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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:02:12 -0400
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<![CDATA[April 16, 2009 9:06 PM]]>
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<![CDATA[What is the significance of the image?]]>
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<![CDATA[@Andrew, I'm not sure. Sometimes it feels like we are, which I think is largely due to the increased level of complexity in the various systems of our society. On the other hand, there must be a saturation point for each individual in terms of what level of complexity he or she can truly comprehend, especially with systems that are peripheral to what one does day to day (for instance, a doctor works within a vastly complex system of medicine, but may have a very low saturation point for economic complexity). Access to news and information may play a significant part to our saturation point, though.<br><br>

@Ted, I'm not sure, I was just kind of winging it ;-)<br><br>

I did hear <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103190326" target="_blank">an interesting clip on NPR's Morning Edition today about a book written in 2004 called Too Big to Fail</a>. One of the authors, Ron Feldman was speaking about how anticipating failure should cause protective decisions to be made (emphasis mine): 

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"Right now, we don't have an entity — an oversight entity, a government entity — that thinks to itself, 'What happens if this institution gets into trouble and is going to fail. What would we do about it at that time?' " Feldman says. "The primary focus of most supervision is to prevent them from getting into trouble. And I think it sounds like a generic thing — 'Well, you change your focus.' That's not trivial. That's important. <b>Because it's by focusing on what we would do if they got in trouble that this stuff gets revealed</b>."
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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:42:08 -0400
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<![CDATA[April 20, 2009 8:45 PM]]>
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<![CDATA[What I was getting at with the idea of having more access to news and information is that maybe it's always been "this bad," but humanity just can't do something about everything...]]>
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Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:45:30 -0400
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<![CDATA[April 22, 2009 9:27 PM]]>
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<![CDATA[@Andrew, It definitely hasn't always been "this bad."]]>
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