In a Bloomberg column, External Professor Sander van der Leeuw says only by getting our heads around the greater complexity of our world will we be able to save it.
"Every human action upon the environment modifies the latter in many more ways that its human actors perceive, simply because the dimensionality of the environment is much higher than can be captured by the human mind,” he says.
Van der Leeuw’s solution: Use technology to reduce the mismatch between our brains and reality.
Read the Bloomberg article (September 9, 2012)