Random thought as I was reading Greenspan’s book. Smith’s fundamental insight was that economic growth occurs with division of labor. Because I’m out there making his email work, some engineer is making sure that fresh water is pumped to my house so I don’t spend 4 hours a day lugging water from a stream allowing me to play with virtualization technology to make email work better.

But how much can division of labor can the human mind support? Is there a limit to the complexity we can comprehend, beyond which division of labor ceases to have economic benefit? As we know more and more about less and less we eventually will know everything about nothing.