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.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.