Friday’s FAA ground stop raises a question bigger than flight delays: What happens when a complex society becomes too interconnected to fail separately? The airplanes still worked. The runways were still there. The coordination system was the problem. This morning on Peoplenomics, we revisit Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies for a civilization that needs a login.
Rome had roads, grain ships and tax collectors. We’ve added cloud platforms, automated permissions and backups that may depend on whatever just failed. The critical question: can we restore essential services before our reserves run out? From AI efficiency to woodstove coffee, we examine what functioning fallbacks actually require.
Meanwhile, this week’s ChartPack examines the battle at the 85-day moving average, rebound possibilities and the larger-cycle risks. Add the fresh News Compressor and an approaching subscriber freebie—my new novel, means there’s plenty to ponder over at Peoplenomics.
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