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The Problematique (Part 1)

Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"

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The Club of Rome and the Problem Atique

The Club of Rome was a group of 30 men who met every two years to come up with ideas for solving problems. The original members were joined by some of the world's most distinguished scientists and economists. After hours of talks, they discovered that not one could deal with the problems in a connected way - except perhaps, for one. Jay Forrester would go on to study at MIT, where he designed feedback control systems for the naval ships used in Pearl Harbor. Later, he developed flight simulators, created the first ever computer animation and invented random access memory which helped usher in an era of powerful modern computing.

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