Games, information, and simulations in C3

C3 is big $; it is nationally important; it promises to provide exciting research topics. Thus, it seems natural that control theorists and engineers should get into it. Question: What does C3 and control theory have to offer each other? My personal, perhaps pessimistic, and undoubtedly controversal answer is that 90% of what is accepted as mainstream control theory is insignificantly related to C3 problems. Worse yet, it is not yet clear to me what parts of the system, OR, computer science knowledge that will eventually emerge as the unifying force in the C3 area. This is partly attributible to my own ignorance. Nevertheless, I maintain that we are not ready for nor is there a "theory of C3". To quote Kalman [1] "System theory (of modelling) begins after the basic science has been straightened out". We don\´t know enough about the basic science of C3. In the below paragraph, I\´ll speculate on and sketch out three topics which are not in the mainstream of control theory and which I believe will have an impact on C3 problems. These topics are more descriptive (dealing with how things are) than prescriptive (how things should be).