Chrome360 | BEWARE! X-EVENT AHEAD! | Dec 2017 by ChromeRadio

Financial crises, disruptions to global communications systems, political upheavals, pandemics... Extreme - or 'X' - events are difficult to predict, high impact, and cause significant damage. How can we prepare for them, and can we survive them?

EPISODE 1 | WHAT IS AN X-EVENT?
We travel to Vienna to meet American systems scientist JOHN CASTI, an expert on X-events, to find out more. Over coffee and cake in Café Landtmann, we enter a world of shifting landscapes, complexity gaps, and random triggers. Watch that precipice!

EPISODE 2 | MIND THE COMPLEXITY GAP
We encounter Wittgenstein and his passion for simplicity, learn how to measure complexity gaps, and understand how a comfortable plateau can morph into a perilous mountain peak!

EPISODE 3 | STAYING ALIVE
Resilience and the four 'As', survival Hundertwasser-style, and creative destruction.

EPISODE 4 | PROSPECTING THE FUTURE
Looking ahead: how to anticipate, prepare for, and manage future X-events.

PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with XEventDynamics LLC | Recorded on location in Vienna, October 2017 | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Contains tracks

• Chrome360 | BEWARE! X-EVENT AHEAD | What is an X-Event? | John Casti by ChromeRadio
• Chrome360 | BEWARE! X-EVENT AHEAD | Mind the Complexity Gap | John Casti by ChromeRadio
• Chrome360 | BEWARE! X-EVENT AHEAD | Staying Alive | John Casti by ChromeRadio
• Chrome360 | BEWARE X-EVENT AHEAD | Prospecting the Future | John Casti by ChromeRadio