My presentation at the Global Catastrophic Risks conference in Mountain View, CA, in November 2008.

1. Risks and Resilience
or
...it’s not like it’s the end of the world...
Jamais Cascio
Open the Future
November 14, 2008

2. Everybody Talks About
the End of the World...
But What Do They Really Mean?

5. resilience: the capacity of a system to tolerate
disturbance without collapsing, to withstand shocks, to
rebuild itself when necessary, and to improve itself
when possible.

6. resilient system design
principles

7. diversity

8. redundancy

9. micro-offsets
decentralization

10. transparency

11. collaboration

12. graceful failure

13. minimal footprint

14. flexibility

15. openness

16. reversibility

17. foresight

18. Abundant, varied components able to function as
a greater whole, but also able to withstand the
loss (through damage or disagreement) of a
significant subset of components.

19. So... how do we make this happen?

21. Jamais Cascio • cascio@openthefuture.com