Systems grow by symbiosis.
Remember the System Development Corporation, which was started in the early 1950s as a small subdivision of RAND, to write operating systems for air defense. Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety says that effective control systems have to be at least as complex as the systems they control. Only in snippets. His project on intentional programming is way ahead of the curve. He's a mathematician, and he can think in more than two or three dimensions.