{"product_id":"feedback-pter-rdi-9783031624384","title":"Feedback: How to Destroy or Save the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book offers an exciting, non-technical intellectual journey around applying feedback control to emerging and managing local and global crises, thus keeping the world on a sustainable trajectory. There is a narrow border between destruction and prosperity: to ensure reasonable growth but avoid existential risk, we must find the fine-tuned balance between positive and negative feedback. This book addresses readers belonging to various generations, such as young people growing up in a world where everything seems to be falling apart; people in their 30s and 40s who are thinking about how to live a fulfilling life; readers in their 50s and 60s thinking back on life; and Baby Boomers reflecting on their past successes and failures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlbert-L?szl? Barab?si\u003c\/strong\u003e, Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University: \u003cem\u003e\"In a world where interconnectedness has fostered global prosperity, it has also introduced vulnerabilities that can escalate local failures into worldwide crises. \"Feedback\" by Peter Erdi explores this double-edged sword, offering a solution through the power of feedback mechanisms. These tools are designed to mitigate the negative impacts of connectedness, steering the complexity of modern life towards outcomes that enhance human welfare.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Grim\u003c\/strong\u003e, Philosopher in Residence Visiting Scholar Center for Complex Systems University of Michigan: \u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e?rdi demonstrates that many of the critical problems we face--from climate crises to economic instability to the threat of terrorism--operate as runaway feedback loops. The first challenge is to understand them. The second is to introduce control mechanisms on the model of biological homeostasis--a different form of feedback--that will guide us toward a more sustainable social future. ?rdi applies the analytic tools of complex systems to some of the most complex issues we face.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIchiro Tsuda\u003c\/strong\u003e, Specially Appointed Professor at Sapporo City University, Sapporo, Japan, leaving Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences (Director and Professor), Chubu University, Japan: \u003cem\u003e\"This book is dangerous, because of making your own consideration on feedback impossible to stop by a continual feedback process of yourself. Nevertheless, you must be given a method of finding very narrow boundaries between prosperity and destruction, therefore this book is extremely valuable. We all must read.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e P?ter ?rdi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031624386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031624384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"P?ter ?rdi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46384068722943,"sku":"9783031624384","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feedback-pter-rdi-9783031624384","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}