The focus on present risks of critical infrastructure components volatilizes in an odd way the infrastructure and its longer-term. It’s not only the specific focus on “scores,” namely: the attempt is to abstract from real-time operations risks associated with specific assets, components and processes that by definition do NOT add up to the infrastructure-as-a-system operated in real time and through time.
It’s also because the real-time management for systemwide reliability in its centralized control room is about the only place in the infrastructure we observed that didn’t lose sight of the infrastructure operations as an articulated–not fissiparous–entity, now and in the next steps ahead.
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 