The technology machine : how manufacturing will work in the year 2020.

"How will autonomous agents, emergent systems, and chaos theory change the way we live and work in the twenty-first century? As today's manufacturing and production systems grow increasingly complex, tomorrow's science of complexity will produce paradoxically simple solutions, argue technology experts Patricia Moody and Richard Morley in this astonishing vision of the year 2020." "By combining rigorous research with their extensive experience with technology advances that have changed industry, Moody and Morley are able to supply simple guidelines for future growth and detail their keen vision of future systems, leaders, and workers. They isolate the three bad business habits at the root of manufacturing problems today - shortsightedness, restrictive structures, and unbalanced improvement fads - show how to break them, and supply four infallible predictors of the types of breakthrough technologies that will come to dominate the world of the future."