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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 wor
by asplake 3y ago
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 3y ago"Google Finds: Centralized Control, Distributed Data Architectures Work Better than Fully Decentralized Architectures" http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/7/google-finds-centralized-control-distributed-data-architectu.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/7/google-finds-centra...
- asplake 3y ago…in computer systems. And I wasn’t arguing for full decentralisation either