The document discusses building resilience against potential risks and disturbances. It defines resilience as a system's ability to withstand shocks without collapsing, rebuild itself when necessary, and improve over time. Key principles for resilient system design include diversity, redundancy, micro-offsets, decentralization, transparency, collaboration, graceful failure, minimal footprint, flexibility, openness, reversibility, and foresight. The goal is to create systems with abundant, varied components that can function as a whole but also withstand the loss of some components through damage or disagreement.

1. Risks and Resilience
or
...it’s not like it’s the end of the world...
Jamais Cascio
Open the Future
November 14, 2008

2. Everybody Talks About
the End of the World...
But What Do They Really Mean?

5. resilience: the capacity of a system to tolerate
disturbance without collapsing, to withstand shocks, to
rebuild itself when necessary, and to improve itself
when possible.

6. resilient system design
principles

7. diversity

8. redundancy

9. micro-offsets
decentralization

10. transparency

11. collaboration

12. graceful failure

13. minimal footprint

14. flexibility

15. openness

16. reversibility

17. foresight

18. Abundant, varied components able to function as
a greater whole, but also able to withstand the
loss (through damage or disagreement) of a
significant subset of components.

19. So... how do we make this happen?

21. Jamais Cascio • cascio@openthefuture.com