McLuhan, Marshall
STVIC IN TRIBUTE Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian media visionary who coined “the global village” and “the medium is message.”
Decade Began ST: 1937–1947
Porter, Arthur
STVIC IN TRIBUTE Porter was key in the early global systems thinking movement as a pioneer in cybernetics.
Selye, Hans
STVIC IN TRIBUTE Pioneered stress theory, founded Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Nobel-nominated visionary.
Bertalanffy, Maria von
STVIC IN TRIBUTE Polymath biologist who founded General Systems Theory, rejecting reductionism for wholistic science.
Bertalanffy, Ludwig von
STVIC IN TRIBUTE Polymath biologist who founded General Systems Theory, rejecting reductionism for wholistic science.
Boulding, Kenneth
STVIC IN TRIBUTE Quaker economist and peace researcher who integrated systems theory, ethics, and social science.