[RevEng]

They said "the" human kind, not "one" human mind. Even with structures, rules, and other tools, we are limited in the amount we can abstract, comprehend, and communicate. As projects get larger, we inevitably see a friction develop where coordination breaks down and we turn to isolation and responding to failures at the boundaries. This is where complexity in design of an individual system ends. Larger ecosystems aren't designed or coordinated - they emerge organically as each tries to adapt to the other. If only we could handle such complexity, we could design efficient systems that don't suffer from the same waste.

[fooqux]

Fair enough.

I do worry what that will mean for projects such as Linux though. Not that I think it will die or anything, but rather that it will become so fragmented that forward movement ceases.