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James Rose's avatar

What would be the Purpose of a well designed, clear goaled, "science of systems"? What is -your- purpose in getting a 'science of systems' explicitly established. What do you plan on doing with the science exploration process having "systems" as their target to explain and document? What other activities or goals/uses can a person have with Systems Literacy part of their knowledge repertoire?

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Shingai Thornton's avatar

Good questions. I did touch on many of them when I started this newsletter in 2023, but my thinking has been updated since then. So you can get some insight into my goals from this old piece, but I'm due to publish something new and I have a few good drafts in the works.

https://open.substack.com/pub/systemexplorers/p/what-is-systems-science?

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James Rose's avatar

FASCINATING .. .. glanced at it .. will in-depth ... anon JNR

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Jeff Emmett's avatar

Great piece! I hope General Magic is on your list too. 🤘

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic

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Shingai Thornton's avatar

They weren't, but they are now!

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Laura London's avatar

This is interesting! I like how they ultized physical design of their space to encourage collaboration too.

One thing I’d be curious about is a specific example or story about how basic research became applied research — how did innovation play out at bell labs?

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Shingai Thornton's avatar

I think the story of how the transistor was created is a great example!

https://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/

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