The Invisible Systems That Run the World | Will Aldridge | TEDxOsney

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Before you arrived here today, hundreds of people you will never meet helped make your morning possible. Electricity, water, transport, logistics, infrastructure, information, and countless handovers operate quietly behind the visible world around us. In this talk, Will Aldridge explores the invisible systems of coordination that allow modern civilization to function. Drawing on experience in military operations, infrastructure logistics, and technology transformation, including work supporting major nuclear construction programs, Will explains why complex systems can fail even when every individual is making a reasonable decision. At the heart of his argument is the idea of operational visibility: giving the right people a shared, trusted picture of where something is, what state it is in and what needs to happen next. Technology, automation and AI can help — but technology alone cannot create coordination or trust. The future of complex systems may depend less on having more dat

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