Starting here in Tonsley makes perfect sense. Software and systems development is an advanced manufacturing activity after all.
We make components, we assemble them, we do quality testing, we ship finished products (and sometimes unfinished products…) – so being part of an advanced manufacturing innovation district fits beautifully.
The existing socio-economic system is a system-of-systems complexity challenge. Most of the systems that are operating within this complex environment are invisible to see as ‘whole systems’.
For example, how does the whole system of ‘managing diabetes type II in South Australia’ work? Is it efficient and effective? Is it optimised to make best use of resources? How big is it? Is it getting more efficient…more effective? Is human suffering reducing? How does it compare with the system in Denmark? Or New Zealand? Or Florida? How much does it cost? Is the environmental impact of the materials we use in this system ? Are there negative