Chapter 12. Innovation and Convergence

The promise of technology is realized only when the needs of agents within the fitscape are met. Beyond discovering, joining, and dynamically consuming services from a reliable NDC framework on which they can depend, applications are fundamentally bound to those agent needs. Just as the Nth Laws promise intelligence everywhere, the needs of these fitscape agents, both organizations and individuals, are served only when that abundance of intelligence is properly planted, husbanded, harvested, and processed; consumption cannot otherwise grow.

If our species is to survive, we must evolve from a Hunter-Gatherer Age of software development to an Agricultural Age, in which biological metaphors, farming discipline, ...

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