Settlers and the New Problems

There are some fundamental truths that drive technology forward, not meaning to be entirely inclusive, but they certainly include

     Technology evolves on top of other technology advancements
     Technology needs to be simplified or abstracted away from complexity to advance

This leads to interesting side cases of where the interdependence of technology must co-evolve with a relatively uncertain future state to continue moving forward.  Part of the solution is an evolution on top of the old technology and part of the solution is an abstraction to solve a complexity problem.

There are also characteristics of technology that meet as part of an industrialization of the technology.  Chris Swan @cpswan speaks on this very elegantly in the move from a technology that is design for operations rather than a design for manufacture or the design for purpose.

Industrialization of this sort is a stepping stone, much like the technology changes that move the state of the art from Town Planners back to Genesis and Design for Purpose.

Settlers and the New Problem

Here's the diagram I'm using to try to illustrate this effect.  It is loosely based on the Wardley Map of  Settlers and an evolution step function that shows the evolution toward the "New Problems."

Looking forward to your feedback!

Update Apr 9:

Which lead to this:

http://www.abusedbits.com/2018/04/descriptive-evolution-mapping.html 

and then this:

http://www.abusedbits.com/2018/04/getting-to-new-problems.html