The World-Wide Web and the Demise of the Clockwork Universe

Chicago, October, 1994

Tom Munnecke

• Abstract
• Adaptation in Information Systems
• Linearity and Nonlinearity
• Complex Initial Conditions, Simple Execution
• WWW is an Example of a Complex Adaptive Information System.
• Designing Complex Adaptive Information Systems
• Point of View
• Inverted Perspective
• Transactional and Transformational Systems
• Acknowledgments
• References
• About the Author