Wow, what a fantastic article. Many thanks to Gregory Travis for writing this. It seems we're learning the same lessons over and over again about the nature of

Wow, what a fantastic article. Many thanks to Gregory Travis for writing this. It seems we're learning the same lessons over and over again about the nature of failure in complex systems. It seems reasonable to me that we'll observe more of these failures as our world becomes increasingly complicated, particularly in social and economic systems. Perhaps we should be teaching the fundamentals of complex systems in high-school just as we teach basic science? It seems to me there is a distinct lack of appreciation of the nature of complex systems in our culture at a general level. Just as some people think it would be better to learn statistics than calculus in high school - I wonder if it would be equally important to learn about complex systems? I'm interested to hear what others think.