The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.
We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.