CSH Lecture by Sander van der Leeuw: “The Information Society as a Complex System”
May 23, 2017
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Join us for a lecture by Sander van der Leeuw on “The Information Society as a Complex System – Sustainability and the ICT revolution” on May 23 at 3:00 pm in lecture room E02 at the Hub.
Abstract:
After a brief outline of Sander’s perspective on the central role of information-processing in structuring societies from the Palaeolithic to the present, he will focus on the last couple of hundred years and present a perspective on the emergence of the sustainability predicament and the ICT revolution. In doing so, he will focus on the role of several “societal planetary boundaries” (wealth differentials, urbanization, information processing acceleration, the food-water-energy nexus) that, in his opinion, need to be taken into account by sustainability scientists, and on some of the consequences of the current ICT revolution for how our societies might have to face the future.