Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.

by Stewart Brand

https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2

I propose six significant levels of pace and size in the working structure of a robust and adaptable civilization.  From fast to slow the levels are:

• Fashion/art
• Commerce
• Infrastructure
• Governance
• Culture
• Nature