See also [[=Niall Ferguson]] ## Futurati interview Bring network science to biology. Metabolic rate scales with size. Striking regularity accross all basically all organisms on earth. Double size, increase metabolic rate by 0.75. Coarse grained scale theories explain something like 80-90% of organism, remaining 10-20% more contingent environmental factors. Characteristics of complex systems: - huge number of components interacting with each other - non linear interactions - evolution - emergent behaviour -