Question

briefly describe the "big system" realted to the film darwins nightmare, what is it, and what is going on here? how do the rural poor and street children fit into the big system and how are their lives affected?

Answer 1

Big systems are often referred as ultra-large-scale-system. Ultra-large-scale-system is a term used in the field computer science and software engineering. It is used to refer software intensive systems with unprecedented amounts of hardware, number of users, volumes of data, etc.

In the film Darwin's nightmare

This was caused due to overfishing.

The Nile perch was artificially introduced into Lake Victoria in the early 1950's. But it was an experiment had gone wrong. The Nile perch became the lake's predator eating of all the existing species of fishes devising the natural ecology of the lake. This an awareness for over fishing. As people fish too much there were no fishes left in the lake. So artificial field fishes i.e., then Niel perch was invented and the experiment was a failure as nature is beyond sciences. The thing happening here is that people don't bother about the availability of natural living things eg animals,birds, fishes etc. They only see to satisfy their wants for time being. People don't worry or care about the future outcomes.

The poor children and street children are not able to fit into this big system due to low income and poverty especially the people with daily wages. They earn only enough for food and shelter. Poor children will not be able to use big systems and due to this their studies (online classes for eg) will be affected to a great extent. Some children also quit studies and start earning in order to support their family. As they work their mindset is distributed and eargernesstto study fades away for some children.