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So far as technology advocates are concerned, this is all for the better. Smarter devices mean smarter people, smarter behaviours, and less of the messy incompetence that sees us getting lost, crashing cars and running out of milk. If problem-solvers can get you to recycle via a game, would they even bother with the less effective path of engaging you in moral reasoning? Global finance was one such system at the time of the crisis, with its locked-in assumptions about risk and cascading series of bad debts.

Our best qualities, from creativity to compassion, are nurtured by a certain amount of stress, disorder and uncertainty - and are blunted by excessive ease and insulation from consequences. If we are to grow as people, for Taleb, we must experience surprise, failure and disappointment, and not be seduced into thinking that all consequences have already been anticipated on our behalf.

The more complex the global infrastructure needed to support the most basic tools and services in our lives, the more vulnerable it becomes to unexpected crises - from power outages to civil unrest - and the more vulnerable we become alongside it. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.

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