Systems naturally become hierarchical.

Hierarchies create stability.

Stability eventually becomes rigidity.

People at the edges experiment.

They improvise.

They steal ideas from unrelated fields.

They build things because they need them.

Eventually their experiments become the next system.

Super as the archetype

Someone without a prescribed domain.

Someone who learns whatever the problem requires.

Someone who moves between disciplines because reality doesn't respect academic departments.

What happens when technology gives this person unprecedented leverage?