very little useful or new information actually conveyed Really? So e.g. the scifi test, the point about design and open source, hotels and efficient markets,

very little useful or new information actually conveyed Really? So e.g. the scifi test, the point about design and open source, hotels and efficient markets, the unified theory of the decline of empires, and economic inequality following automatically from higher resolution were all things you'd already thought about? They were all surprises to me.