There is this concept of emergent control called a "metasystem transition" [1] which is what Dyson is really talking about. Conventional history and culture has

There is this concept of emergent control called a "metasystem transition" [1] which is what Dyson is really talking about. Conventional history and culture has never before been shaped by the - ever shortening, ever accelerating - techonomic feedback loops that we see today. Cybernetics has been summoned like Yog Sothoth in "The case of Charles Dexter Ward". [1] http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MST.html http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MST.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_War...