In the software industry this is known as vaporware.
>
>...Question -- does it not appear that
>his whole argument is one "by analogy?" Or is there more to it than that?
>
At this point his only definition of specified complexity is an analogy.
And the thrust of the analogy seems to me to be that complexity that serves
some intended function is specified complexity. I will read his monograph
when it comes out, in the hope that I'm wrong.
Bill Hamilton
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