Systems and their (less than perfect) human agents

A key to improving processes is to acknowledge, overcome our fallibilities

By Anirudh Dhebar

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology." – Edward O. Wilson, during debate at Harvard Museum of Natural Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sep. 9, 2009.


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