From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 21:21:07 MST
From: Anders Sandberg [mailto:asa@nada.kth.se]
>
> [mez comments on how bad humans are at building software]
>
> Yes. So maybe a worthwhile issue is to find the paradigm enabling
> that issue to be solved - or rather, to find better ways of
> *searching* for complexity management.
Agreed. There's a large set of important problems we could get a
better handle on if we had better complexity management theories and
tools. It's disappointing that current methods of searching for
those tools have turned up so little.
Are there any complexity theorists on this list? I'd love to hear
someone with a better understanding of the field talk about what has /
hasn't happed in the last decade.
Frankly, complexity management is also an area that one would expect
my native field - software development - to have made good progress
on. Sadly software development is so economically and pragmatically
driven that its /practice/ has far outstripped its /theory/.
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