The most significant discovery in efforts to understand failures of governmental planning, might be found in the study of chaos, or complexity. A product of computerized technology, this field of inquiry demonstrates how complex systems are simply vulnerable to too many variables to allow for any reasonable basis for making predictions, particularly over extended periods of time. References to "unforeseen consequences" are increasingly commonplace in virtually every area of human behavior. It is one way of talking about the dynamics of complexity. Because it is impossible to identify and to measure all the influences at work upon any complex system, … Continue reading Chaos in Space