Another quote from the Brian Arthur interview:

I once asked John Holland [says Arthur], who’s knowledgeable about chess playing, if chess has reached some sort of equilibrium where if everyone plays their best, games are lost and won, but chess overall does not progress. He said no. There is novelty in what’s discovered century by century. A good tournament master now could possibly beat a grand master of a hundred years ago because the envelope has been pushed out of what’s known. So anything complicated and interactive seems to unfold and develop new structures

I wondered whether this is true of Go as well, which is a game with far simpler rules than chess. I asked Urban, who’s learning Go, and he said that he thinks it is.

Now switch to business or the economy. The old thinking is that business and the economy are mechanistic. […] This just happens to be a structure we laid on business, trying to make it a science. We believe there are Problems and there are Solutions. Implicitly it means that if you are managing there is a feeling here that you can actually frame the problem correctly so that there is a Solution with a capital “S,” and it’s up to you to learn how to arrive at that solution. But all this only works in repetitive business, where you can optimize and the problems are all well defined.