Engineering Uncertainty: The role of uncertainty in the design of complex technological and business systems

•Increasing complexity of computational systems inevitably leads to uncertainty.•We explore the human, legal, cultural affects and business affects of embracing uncertainty as an engineering and business practice.•New business models and products revealed through uncertainty in complex systems.

Engineering Uncertainty is a Science Fiction Prototype that explores the inevitability of uncertainty in increasingly complex computational and business systems. We explore the human, legal, cultural affects and business affects of embracing uncertainty as an engineering and business practice. This new approach to innovation and design could have radical effects on current business theory and practices.