20.3 Reductionism and complex systems
I have already suggested that our current software engineering methods and technologies cannot cope with the complexity that is inherent in modern systems of systems. Of course, this idea is not new: Progress in all engineering disciplines has always been driven by challenging and difficult problems. New methods and tools are developed in response to failures and difficulties with existing approaches.
In software engineering, we have seen the incredibly rapid development of the discipline to help manage the increasing size and complexity of software systems. This effort has been very successful indeed. We can now build systems that are orders of magnitude larger and more complex than those of the 1960s and ...
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