Herman Kahn is the Cold War systems thinker I was "writing to read" when the Daily Planet started. RAND, his institution, is for me the emblem of the first age of systems thinking.
How the word moved
In August 2025, in Weekly Planet #1, I was reading Kahn because he wrote for a world that's the precursor to ours, and the daily updates grew out of that reading. By February 2026 RAND had become the first of my three ages of systems theory, alongside cybernetics.
In my words
"In contrast, Herman Kahn wrote for a world that is clearly the precursor to ours"
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #1, 25 Aug 2025
Related
- Related Daily Planet - the Daily Planet began while I was reading him.
- Related Three Ages of Systems Theory - RAND and cybernetics mark the first age.
- Related Writing for Reading - I was writing to read Kahn when the series began.