Allenna Leonard

Allenna Leonard is president of the American Society for Cybernetics, and a Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. of Toronto, Canada.

Clues from a clownfish: ten ideas for a better world

As a consequence of innovation, the world is a smaller and smaller place - a "global village", as the communications theorist Marshall McLuhan put it. Not too long

By Allenna Leonard

/ 8 Feb 2007

Mirror reflections: fundamentalism and the market economy

Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, both terrorism (with its links to Islamic fundamentalism) and intensified security (with its encroachment on civil liberties) have been part of our

By Allenna Leonard

/ 28 May 2003

After the cataclysm: a systems analysis

Geoffrey Vickers once said, The trap is a function of the nature of the trapped. He gave an example of a lobster trap taking into account the nature of a

By Allenna Leonard

/ 26 Sep 2002