-Lorenz discovered that the weather cannot be predicted long term because small disturbances, such as rounding to a wrong decimal or the disturbance of the air by a butterfly, was enough to change weather patterns.
The term butterfly effect refers to the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can create small changes in the atmosphere, which may alter the path of a tornado
Chaos-“Dynamics freed at last from the shackles of order and predictability…” p.632,5
“Thinking about civilization,” he says, “led me to think about complexity as an entity. How do you compare civilization to something else? Is it like brass? Is it like a frog? How do you answer that question? This is what motivates complex systems.”
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