We are naturally and severely limited in our abilities. To our credit, it is a remarkable story of our species to learn of our accomplishments in this regard (Derry and Williams,1960; Williams, 1982). This story has every indication of accelerating in various areas in which advances in technology are enabling advances in various knowledge domains (pex www.ted.com/talks).We seek to build and integrate ever more complex methodological and technological means to comprehend all kinds of systems at higher order levels of complexity, well beyond our limited personal level of description.The
potential for advancing research methodology and accompanying technologies to as yet
unknown levels of sophistication are not difficult to imagine. It is only the patience of
continuing to build them that must contain our passion and enthusiasm in this quest.