And it has always been run by experts, I wonder how else one could call the programmers and sys-ops. I just read an article in a dutch newspaper, the NRC, who finally discovered post-modernism. According to this Bas Heyne, post-modernism is characterized by the shift from the actor to the observer. This is also my impression of most academics these days. Many prefer to observe, and to deconstruct, working with somewhat older material, not with the latest cultural constructs.
Panic is never suitable in a crisis because it only encourages delay.
Again such a naive copy-paste of Bill Gates' 'friction free capitalism'. Panic is a very deep, psycho-physical response to immediate danger. Suitable or not, it's there. The question is only how society repsonses to it. Yes, I think we can do away with the genius, this 19th century figure.