New Markets, 1950-2000
The main bifurcation events
since the computer revolution (ca 1950) include:
- 1950, cellular automata (Ulam)
- 1956, system dynamics aka complex dynamical systems (Forrester)
- 1961, chaos theory (Ueda, Lorenz)
- 1966, catastrophe theory (Thom, Zeeman)
- 1970s, analog neural nets (????)
- 1975, fractal geometry (Mandelbrot)
- 1977, complexity (Waddington)
- 1980s, cellular (lattice) dynamical systems, morphogenesis (????)
Revised by Ralph, 30 April 2003
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