I have this belief that at almost any point in the future* we could reach a point where the fact that we specialize really effectively will run up against some limit of social organization, and we just will not be able to get enough specialists to effectively communicate on a project, and the project will fail. This happens all the time...and it could be the end of technological expansion: if we can't organize enough people to complete the project, the project cannot progress.
We already depend on deeply, wildly complicated, trans-national supply chains with many, many steps. Logistics experts are becoming the new crop of best business men. What happens if the problems become so complicated that a pretty smart mark 1 human just can't succeed?
*and I'm often scared that the future here was last month, and the news hasn't reached me yet...
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Reply to Is there any real upper limit of technology? by basafish
I have this belief that at almost any point in the future* we could reach a point where the fact that we specialize really effectively will run up against some limit of social organization, and we just will not be able to get enough specialists to effectively communicate on a project, and the project will fail. This happens all the time...and it could be the end of technological expansion: if we can't organize enough people to complete the project, the project cannot progress.
We already depend on deeply, wildly complicated, trans-national supply chains with many, many steps. Logistics experts are becoming the new crop of best business men. What happens if the problems become so complicated that a pretty smart mark 1 human just can't succeed?
*and I'm often scared that the future here was last month, and the news hasn't reached me yet...