Ask HN: What do you think about the “Glass Cage” book of N. Carr?
What I really think is that we haven't yet started to understand the kind of higher older problems that we may have to cope with, there known unkowns and unknown unkowns, and I think we are in the quadrant in which unexpected things can happen, but as always we will try to seek solutions in our comfortable zone. I haven't read the book, only some fragments on the web.
Perhaps someone can add some good opinion about this. For example the concept of Taleb about resiliance and how systems should be designed to fail, and how our models don't take into account the real risk and the black swam of the future. It seems to me that the author is not a computer scientist or a mathematician and so some concepts maybe lacking that others could read in the design of systems. Just as an example I found this in Carr blog, http://www.roughtype.com/?p=1610 (from 2012):
Carr: I don’t fully understand this excerpt from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s forthcoming book Antifragile, but I found this bit to be intriguing:
John Cook (famous blogger on math and stats) tries to explain a statistical fact from this fragment of Taleb that Carr find difficult to grasp. That was the type of limitation I was thinking could happen, some ideas only can be grasped when you are ready for them.
Edited: Added references to Taleb, resiliance and risk, and John Cook.