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Efficiency vs. Resilience: Lessons from COVID-19
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2021
Perspectives on Digital Humanism
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AbstractWhy was the world not ready for COVID-19, in spite of many warnings over the past 20 years of the high likelihood of a global pandemic? This chapter argues that the economic goal of efficiency, focused on short-term optimization, has distracted us from resilience, which is focused on long-term optimization. Computing also seems to have generally emphasized efficiency at the expense of resilience. But computing has discovered that resilience is enabled by redundancy and distributivity.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_38
fatcat:byyihvszgfebvn3gl253ovqkzq