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Duncan Watts

small-world networks; Six Degrees.

Sociologist and network scientist, author of Six Degrees and Everything Is Obvious, known for research on small-world networks and social contagion.

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Alex Pentland
social physics; reality-mining feedback systems.
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Alicia Juarrero
Dynamics in Action; constraints and complex causality.
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Stella software; systems thinking pedagogy.
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Benoit Mandelbrot
fractals; fat-tailed finance.
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increasing returns; complexity economics.
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resilience thinking.
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Buckminster Fuller
synergetics; Spaceship Earth; tensegrity.
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10 May 2026
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