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X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything by John L. Casti is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything about?

“I am an assiduous reader of John Casti’s books. He is a real scientific intellectual.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, __New York Times__ bestselling author of __Fooled by Randomness__ “Casti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting everyday examples to illustrate them.”—__New York Times Book Review__ In his highly provocative and grippingly readable book, __X-Events__, author John Casti brilliantly argues that today’s advanced, overly complex societies have grown highly vulnerable to extreme events that will ultimately topple civilization like a house of cards. Like Nassim Taleb’s __The Black Swan__ meets Jared Diamond’s __Collapse__, Casti’s book provides a much-needed wake-up call—sounding a fascinating and frightening warning about civilized society’s inability to recover from a global catastrophe— demonstrating how humankind could be blasted back into the Stone Age by a meteor strike, nuclear apocalypse, worldwide contagion, or any number of unforeseeable __X-Events__.

Who reads X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything?

Author

John L. Casti

Publisher

William Morrow & Company; William Morrow Paperbacks

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062088307

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Mathematics