Third Law: Technology comes in packages, big and small.
Complicated means that something has many moving parts, whereas complex means it exhibits emergent behavior – that is, it does things that are not easily predicted a priori.
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
technology is a necessary condition, but it's not sufficient.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt • Necessary but Not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel
Our modern lives are built from globe-spanning supply chains that require vast logistics systems and incredible communication speed to make sense. Each technology not only unlocks a new state of expanded acceleration (that will be hardcoded into our lives as the new basis for our survival), but will also be used as the basis for new technologies to
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