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Attempts to think about .

Widely associated with and the at .

One interesting body of work on how-to-think is the .

The World In A Machine: Origins And Impacts Of Early Computerized Global Systems Models by [Paul N Edwards], covers 1945-1972 ()

Flash-based summary of various diagramming tools. See also .

says re [General Systems Theory] - An off-shoot of , with (so far as I can see) far less to recommend it. This is not to say that none of its advocates ever produced anything worthwhile, just that the credit for it should not go to the verbiage which passed for "approaches to a general theory of systems'' (query --- why is that phrase much more respectable than "theory of things in general''?)

appropriate for problems? or drowned by them?

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