Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates. The philosopher Karl Popper once argued that there are two kinds of problems in the world: clock problems and cloud ...

Abstract: Aerospace engineers constantly face “wicked problems,” which are ill-defined and complex sociotechnical problems with undefined and often-shifting constraints and requirements. However, the ...

The term wicked problem has become a standard way for policy analysts to describe a social issue whose solution is inherently elusive. Wicked problems have many causal factors, complex ...

Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Paris climate agreement is another example of an attempted grand solution to a ...

Note: This is the fourth blog in a series about how our views of truth and reality contribute to some of the problems we experience as individuals and as a society. I don't claim that what I say is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephan Manning, University of Sussex and Juliane Reinecke, King's College London; ...