Saturday, 2 May 2020

The Psychotechnic History: The Fifth Triad

Thesis: See the synthesis here.

Antithesis: In an expanding interstellar civilization, transportation outstrips communication.

Synthesis: The field agents and integrating computers of the Stellar Union Coordination Service address accelerating complexity.

Comment:

Humanity has responded to its problems with organizations:

sovereign states
UN world govenment
the Solar Union
the Stellar Union
the Psychotechnic Institute
the Order of Planetary Engineers
the Coordination Service

Each is only partially successful.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

The Stellar Union and its Coordination Service should have settled for trying to "coordinate" only a fairly small part of the Galaxy. Which is what the Terran Empire more modestly strove to do in the Technic series. For the Stellar Union to attempt taking over more and more of the galaxy made its task impossible.

Ad astra! Sean