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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