If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear…

- John L. Casti

The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various g…

- John L. Casti

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

- John L. Casti

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back i…

- John L. Casti

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

- John L. Casti

In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would s…

- John L. Casti

My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would tot…

- John L. Casti

A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as t…

- John L. Casti

System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that …

- John L. Casti