What have the Romans - sorry - complexity done for us?

Posted by Robert Holmes on Jul 24, 2006; 1:21pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/What-have-the-Romans-sorry-complexity-done-for-us-tp522232.html

Hi all,

I really enjoyed Joe's post and it set me thinking - exactly what has
complexity science achieved? IMHO, one measure of a field's health is that
the field moves forward (radical, huh?). If I look at particle physics, they
now know stuff that they didn't 15 years ago (neutrino mass for example); if
I look at high-temperature superconductivity, Tc moves ever upwards. If I
look at string theory they ask (and occassionally answer) ever more abstruse
and unlikely questions that might not bear any relation to the real world
but are at least based on what was asked before.

So here's the question: in the field of complexity science, exactly what can
we do now that we could not do 15 years ago?

Robert
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