Alat: It's been my experience understand that complex adaptive systems, you cannot impose a top down solution on them. So i do think that emergence from complex adaptive system is what you're doing - emerging from an understanding of complex adaptive systems. And it's using them the right way, as opposed to this top down thinking you can master a complex adaptive system are a really bad thought. Alat: People who try to make systems fool proof do not understand the ingenuity of fools.