Something can be *lazy synchronous* for instance you can write some code now, stop for an hour and start again, but you still need to be sync-ed with others in a few-days time frame in general. You can pack customers orders at an irregular peace but they want them delivered so you should anyway produce something fast enough. Something MUST be synchronous, a doctor can't cure a patient asynchronously. A dentist can't fill a tooth cavity asynchronously with the patient.<p>That's can be called flexible scheduling, the opposite of the most current industrial just-in-time model. Drop the just-in-time model means more smartness, knowledge, decision power is needed at every level of the process, like Toyota win against Ford, like we have done in the past and we have tried to stop in the relatively recent time to centralize power.<p>The centralization theory was designed basically because some see automation as a way to satisfy their thirst for power, cutting intermediate hierarchies and rule as ancient absolute monarch, formally with the justification that dictatorship make decisions faster then Democracies. Such theory prove again to be a scam, we can't sustain for long. Complex hierarchies of course have their issues, but thanks to automation and TLCs we can overcome many of them. Only we need *distributed* knowledge, culture, power, like the ITs of early pioneering days have foresee for a bright future. Unfortunately modern management/politicians/finance cohorts hate such model as they hate Democracy.<p>The real fallacy is that yes, dictatorships are faster IF they came from a non-dictatorship background. Nazi scientist realize a big advance in knowledge BUT they was not born/educated under the nazi regime. That's the point. It's about time to switch from the "infinite growth model" to the "infinite evolution model".