ABSTRACT
While the history of what I have called technical chaos is not so long as that of classical chaos, it is equally as interesting, and pertinent to the organizational dynamics and organizational learning with which we are now engaged. Where classical chaos offers us the thrill of contemplating the mysterious cloak of the unknown, and the depths of our collective unconscious, technical chaos offers us the excitement of unraveling some of the threads from the cloak. In more prosaic terms, technical chaos came about with the improved abilities to manipulate calculations, and with improved abilities to display mathematical results as graphical forms and not simply as lists of numbers. It is a way of perceiving that which appears irrational.
