Here is an article that shares the opinion and gives an overview of key ideas. https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5777 https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5777 It seems like i

Here is an article that shares the opinion and gives an overview of key ideas. https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5777 https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5777 It seems like in the late 80s and early 90s this topic was very hot, then became a fad. You can find many books and papers that all have basically the same content (Lorenz/Henon attractors, logistic map, Mandelbrot set). I think it underwent a name change to "complexity science" during the 90s and 00s. I'm not in academia, but I do try to follow the topic because it is truly fascinating and IMO more accessible than quantum or relativity physics because many of the systems involved can be easily programmed/visualized with basic computers.