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No innovation since the wheel has failed to create unexpected diversity, or opportunity — that’s more or less the definition of “innovation” — ''or'' more subsidiary [[complexity]] & inefficiency as a by-product. Both the opportunities and the inefficiencies “need” human midwifery, to exploit (for the former) and effectively manage (for the latter). | No innovation since the wheel has failed to create unexpected diversity, or opportunity — that’s more or less the definition of “innovation” — ''or'' more subsidiary [[complexity]] & inefficiency as a by-product. Both the opportunities and the inefficiencies “need” human midwifery, to exploit (for the former) and effectively manage (for the latter). | ||
Nothing that the information revolution has yet thrown up suggests any of that has changed. | Nothing that the information revolution has yet thrown up suggests any of that has changed. The more [[technology]] is deployed, the more the fog of confusion and [[complexity]] — as in [[complexity theory]] and not just [[complicated]]ness — engulfs us. | ||
===... but [[chess]]-playing supercomputers... === | ===... but [[chess]]-playing supercomputers... === |