He who would manage the world must be wise to it. So goes the battle cry of those who seek acceptance of their management models, yet their inability to respond to the challenges posed by terrorism, nuclear proliferation, water shortages or pandemics–or quite simply to win the war in Iraq–has rung the death knell of their ambitions. 2005 showed that the deterministic theory had already reached its limits. 2006 will have shown that it has nothing further to propose than walking away from it all.