[The is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed. - Kenneth E. Boulding

In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

[The information available within a system constitutes what Boulding (1978) calls the noosphere. It is constituted by the collection of plans, of representations, of procedures, of ideas for the construction of objects or of instructions to realize certain interaction patterns, including] the totality of the cognitive content, including values, of all human nervous systems, plus the prostatic devices by which the system is extended and integrated in the form of libraries, computers, telephones, post offices, and so on.

(iii) The next level is that of the control mechanism or cybernetic system, which might be nicknamed the level of the thermostat...