“But one cannot determine in advance which people will come up with the best ideas, and all ideas must be tried out (and not merely simulated on a computer) to see how they will work. And some ideas will come only as we are (post facto) trying to describe what patterns have evolved from the spontaneous coordination of the actions of many people.”
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Questions to ask on creating new realities: How do we bring visions to reality? How do we figure out what the best visions are? How do we test those visions? At what point do we end up saying the test is over and giving those visions no further air to breathe?
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