There were conservative, liberal, and socialist visions of that city, but all hoped to create order by abolishing the source of disorder, namely politics. Only in the twentieth century have we finally come to see the impracticality, and perniciousness in that vision. According to many now however, we have transcended that era, and are into a post-modern mode. But what that saturation amounts to is information overload. The judicious application of the Laws of Informatics helps us to understand, and to control these circumstances.
Limits are inevitable and essential.
Pick up priorities, but keep your eyes open. In other words, our physical experience of space and time, provides the basis for all of the higher-order abstractions we have developed. Information science represents the self-conscious culmination of this cognitive evolution. A couple of current examples will illustrate this. Both are built upon schematics of conceptual inclusion and exclusion, and developing either one presumes that the endeavour is worthwhile.