The very long tail of the future is already here.
We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.