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{{a|devil|{{subtable|{{complex capsule}}}}}}[[All other things being equal]], a bummer — if you have in mind ''[[risk]]'' — and a boon — if you have in mind ''reward''. A violation of [[Occam’s razor]]; a source of confusion, a time-sink, a material contributor to catastrophic [[normal accident]]s; a ''[[waste]]'' — yet in a [[distributed network]] of autonomous bodies, | {{a|devil|{{subtable|{{complex capsule}}}}}}[[All other things being equal]], a bummer — if you have in mind ''[[risk]]'' — and a boon — if you have in mind ''reward''. A violation of [[Occam’s razor]]; a source of confusion, a time-sink, a material contributor to catastrophic [[normal accident]]s; a ''[[waste]]'' — yet in a [[distributed network]] of autonomous bodies, an ''inevitability''. The more sophisticated the group of individuals, the greater the rate of complexification. | ||
====Complexity as a bummer=== | ====Complexity as a bummer==== | ||
*Chernobyl | *Chernobyl | ||
*Space Shuttle Challenger | *Space Shuttle Challenger | ||
*Any financial calamity you care to mention | *Any financial calamity you care to mention | ||
===Complexity as a boon==== | ====Complexity as a boon==== | ||
*T’Internet | *T’Internet | ||
*The gradual disintermediation of [[information]] from its [[substrate]] | *The gradual disintermediation of [[information]] from its [[substrate]] | ||