Implementation and Technology

It is possible that some readers find the book full of notions of abstract reasoning that would astonish a medieval theologian, so to speak. Nevertheless, it becomes clearer by the day that in the emerging Conceptual Age to be able to reflect on abstract ideas and relationships, understand notions that are removed from the mere facts of “here and now,” and perceive analogies between what appear to be totally unrelated entities (and thereby understand higher levels of abstraction), will be the key to the solution of the increasingly complex and subtle problems that characterize the 21st century. As noted several times in this book, the theory of simple ideas and “quick and dirty” solutions is under increasingly suspicion nowadays, and the far-reaching consequences of this suspicion are yet to be assessed.