Interactive Complexity Complexity is a moving target The underlying factor is intellectual manageability 1. A simple"system has a small number of unknowns in its interactions within the system and with its environment 2. A system is intellectually unmanageable when the level of interactions reaches the point where they cannot be thoroughly planned understood anticipated guarded agains 3. Introducing new technology introduces unknowns and even "unk-unks Computers and Risk Computers and risk We seem not to trust one another as much as would be desirable. In lieu of trusting each other, are we putting too much trust in our technology?.. Perhaps we are not educating our children sufficiently well to understand he reasonable uses and limits of technology. Thomas B. sheridanc ✌☎✄☎✍✎✄☎✏✎✠☎✑✝✒✖✧ Interactive Complexity ￾✂✁☎✄✝✆✟✞✠☎✡☎☛✄☎☞ Complexity is a moving target The underlying factor is intellectual manageability 1. A "simple" system has a small number of unknowns in its interactions within the system and with its environment. 2. A system is intellectually unmanageable when the level of interactions reaches the point where they cannot be thoroughly planned understood anticipated guarded against 3. Introducing new technology introduces unknowns and even "unk−unks." c ✌☎✄☎✍✎✄☎✏✎✠☎✑✝✒✖★ ✗✠☎☞✝✘☎✙☎✚✄☎✞✏✜✛☎✑☎✢✝✣✥✤✏✎✦ Computers and Risk We seem not to trust one another as much as would be desirable. In lieu of trusting each other, are we putting too much trust in our technology? . . . Perhaps we are not educating our children sufficiently well to understand the reasonable uses and limits of technology. Thomas B. Sheridan