On Dec 5, 2003, at 9:21 AM, Lubomir S. Popov wrote:
> From particular paradigmatic positions, system thinking is very
> mechanistic, reductionists, and worst of all -- positivistically
> bended. It
> is the greatest achievement of the industrial age and still persists
> at the
> time of current information systems. However, if it can make a
> dissertation, why not use it.
Sorry if this perpetuates off-topicness but am I the only one confused
by the back-and-forth about systems thinking? Is a claim being made
that systems thinking is not useful in design generally, not useful in
-any- aspect of design, not deserving of being enshrined as the center
of the design universe, the work of Satan, out of fashion, so 20th
century. . . ?
Gunnar
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