The world is excited these days about the burgeoning concept of Complexity.
Complexity is touted as the panacea concept to potentially solve the world's physical ills.
For good or ill, I worked in a self-imposed isolation. Not unaccessible with the general academic world pursuing the topic, but merely distanced from commitment to the accepted Guild Path of academic degrees. And, for good or ill, my exposure and dissemination of ideas has been limited by that primal decision. The past 12 months has seen quite a turn from that anonymity. Modestly but significantly.