HackerTube / Video
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter
vlada888
Joseph Tainter lectures at a 2010 sustainability conference on why complex societies such as Rome collapse. His thesis is that rising complexity brings diminishing returns until societies cannot afford to maintain it.
Recommended as the best exposition of Tainter's theory, and used to explain slowing innovation, centralization and collapse risk.
10 Hacker News mentions · 2015–2023