I wrote a post in 2016 titled "human-complete problems" (ref to terms like NP-complete, Turing-complete, AI-complete). Just struck me that Covid19 is a humanity-complete problem. Next level to this.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/03/31/human-complete-problems/ …
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Prediction: the natural unit of "response" structure is going to end up in the form of the minimum-viable humanity-complete problem bundle, where people sense that every major problem is represented, and being responded to in a holistic way. Right now in the US, that is "state"
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Even in countries with a much stronger federal/unitary bias over states/provinces, like India, governor-level leaders are emerging as the natural leaders. I called this one wrong. I thought mayors would be it. The city is too small a unit. The province/state is the right size.
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Cities are incomplete response units in a couple of critical ways: they cannot contain their own critical supply chains in a meaningful way, while states often can (like short-term food, water and energy security, plus light manufacturing)
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