[asplake]

As long ago as the 70s and perhaps earlier, the cybernetics community – people like Ashby, Conant, Beer – might have argued its non-viability (I choose that word deliberately) on information-theoretic grounds. The centre has neither the communication bandwidth nor the predictive power to control things for long.

[mrkeen]

"Google Finds: Centralized Control, Distributed Data Architectures Work Better than Fully Decentralized Architectures"

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/7/google-finds-centra...

[asplake]

…in computer systems. And I wasn’t arguing for full decentralisation either