Industrial Dynamics (1961)


Jay Wright Forrester (1918-2016) first pioneered the development of magnetic computer memory before moving on to something really diffiult: system dynamics. This discipline studies and simulates the interaction between dynamic systems and provided the type of computer modelling that enabled the Limit to Growth report by the Club of Rome. Industrial dynamics is also, crucially, an early attempt to model supply chains. Here are a few images from his Industrial Dynamics (1961), a landmark book with still stunning graphs.