7 COMPLEXITY & CHAOS Mandelbrot Set HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015851 --- PAGE BREAK --- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius ‘Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.” Pete Seeger HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015852 --- PAGE BREAK --- f

cy in any second language in the future will be an arcane specialty. Better to teach the kids how to build an Al, or to debate the moral reasoning of Confucius and Socrates than how to order dinner. The machines will take care of that. Power in a connected age will pool, then, not in the mouths and minds of

colleges and universities (see the section on “Universities”) also promote local exchanges and, in some cases, political activities,"! as do the 110 Confucius Institutes in America. The China General Chamber of Commerce-USA was founded in 2005 to build stronger investment environments for Chinese companies

similar way, Kissinger shows, the current generation of Chinese leaders have drawn inspiration from the teachings of Kong Fu Zi (known in the West as Confucius). Their goal, he argues, is not world domination but da tong: "great harmony." This goes to the heart of the matter. In 1971, when Kissinger first we