Jay Wright Forrester
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Jay Wright Forrester was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as a graduate student i
Project Whirlwind core memory, circa 1951
The Limits to Growth
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The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. The study used the
Jay Wright Forrester
…attempted to simulate urban dynamics and then world dynamics, developing a model with the Club of Rome along the lines of the model popularized in The Limits to Growth. Today system dynamics is most often applied to research and consulting in organizations and other social systems. Forrester was born on a farm near…
Researchers from China and Indonesia with Dennis Meadows