Tools for systems thinking -- like STELLA -- keep evolving from the mainframe to the desktop, probably to the mobile phone soon enough! Here's the introductory marketing material and testimonials on Stella.
"Systems Thinking software like STELLA and iThink is an increasingly valuable tool for constructing understanding about all kinds of dynamic systems from natural environments to team dynamics to economic markets."
Peter Senge, Author of The Fifth Discipline, Founding Chairperson, SoL
Education and research are most exciting when they move out of the lecture hall and library and provide opportunity to create, experience, and see. STELLA® offers a practical way to dynamically visualize and communicate how complex systems and ideas really work.
Whether they are first-time or experienced modelers, teachers, students, and researchers use STELLA to explore and answer endless questions like:"STELLA gives us an enormously powerful and flexible tool for creating environments that allow people to learn by doing."
- How does climate change influence an ecosystem over time?
- Would Hamlet’s fate have changed if he’d killed Claudius earlier?
- How do oil prices respond to shocks in supply and/or demand?
- What will happen when the ozone layer is gone?
- How do basic macroeconomic principles affect income and consumption?
Dennis Meadows, President, Laboratory for Interactive Learning, Co-author Limits To Growth: The 30 Year Update