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Effects of information overload

Adequacy of materials

"Compunication" is a dirty word.

Bureaucracies that get too large develop internal interest groups.
Like his previous example of universities getting too large.

The protection against instability is diversity of political units.

The extent to which competitive success depends on good theories,
decision theory, etc. is alas not as great as Bell suggest.

The RR and time micronovel. illusion of progress, p.195

detailed facts about Arpanet.

what if we can do bureaucracy more efficiently?  The knowledge
industry has its diseases.  The social workers are more disaffected
than factory workers.

What about a division of the population into those whose livelihood
depends on someone buying their product and those whose services
are purchased by government compulsion.

illusion of progress