[Andrew Zolli & Ann Marie Healy: Resilience, Why things bounce back]
"Through design and evolution, HOT [highly optimised tolerance] systems achieve rare structured states which are robust to perturbations they were designed to handle, yet fragile to unexpected perturbations and design flaws. As the sophistication of these systems is increased, engineers encounter a series of trade- offs between greater productivity or throughput and the possibility of catastrophic failure. Such robustness trade-offs are central properties of the complex systems which arise in biology and engineering."[source]
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