Phase Change
In Jan 2006, for the first time, a computer managed to simulate phase change in a fluid. (http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2384) This transformation is so complex that it has simply not been possible to achieve this previously. We have computers to simulate weather patterns, atomic bombs and map the human genome - but modelling the change from a liquid to a gas is even bigger!
There is a massive amount of energy involved in the transition from one phase/state to another - in any environment. I believe that this applied equally well to organizations and economics. The energy lost at the edge, when energy is transferred from outside the organization to within it, and vise-versa, is immense.
Agile organizations, which are far more concerned with energy efficiency than older organizational forms need to be aware of this, and should work to minimise the energy differential at their borders.