Word: interconnectedness
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Happily, although the Getty complex will contain as much floor space as a skyscraper, Meier has scattered its nearly 1 million sq. ft. among six sharply distinct buildings, none taller than five stories. The largest is the museum, which is, in turn, broken up into five pavilions set around a...
Don't scream, but we may have yet another mess to worry about: an insurance crisis. And while there's no reason at this stage to think it will rival the savings and loan crisis, never underestimate the worldwide insurance industry. It's tightly interconnected, and nothing about it is...
The global marketplace, however, has become so interconnected that trade wars don't make much more sense than real wars. Issues that once were strictly internal -- Japan's retail distribution system, European price supports for farmers, the U.S. budget deficit -- have become legitimate subjects of international negotiation. This suggests that...
Not all artificial life-forms are confined to a computer screen. At M.I.T.'s mobile robot lab (also known as the "artificial insect lab"), Rodney Brooks is building tiny six-legged creatures that are controlled by interconnected computer chips and that display behavior (scurrying for cover, stalking prey) that seems...
So far, the bad case of nerves has been confined mostly to Tokyo, but the anxiety could prove contagious; in the interconnected global economy, a downturn in Japan would tend to drag down other countries as well. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average fell 37 points last week, to...