anything far enough, it will reverse its effects. Its 
characteristics will assume a sort of 
complimentary pattern. A couple of examples from 
the book that I remember, IBM used to have a 
saying in information theory, “Data overload 
equals pattern recognition.” When the data in a 
field become too many or too profuse to attend to 
any one, then you stand back and you look at the 
whole field at once. There’s a flip in other words 
from looking at individuals to looking at whole 
patterns. A reversal. A complimentary kind of thing 
happens.

Well, it turns out, every technology does this. If