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About this episode

Today's digest is about the difficulty of predicting outcomes in this wild, crazy world of ours. Today's globalized, networked, technologically souped-up world is infinitely complex, with many more determining factors than just the two sides of a coin. And calling the shots is a bigger challenge than ever. Many of the stories you'll find in the digest today illustrate the difficulty of anticipating consequences because of the lag time between imagining and implementing policy, or between making legislation and it taking effect. Our society confronts not only the perennial challenge of forseeing outcomes, but the immediate and pressing question of how to reform our institutions, both public and private, to be able to respond to the pace of change in the new millennium.

• Release Date

  May 1, 2009

• Runtime

  05:14