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Your demonstration is probably brillant, but I still don't get the point. My question was simpler: how can a technology win if there is no winners and losers? I really think we should stop this thread that is going nowhere and won't continue to answer. Sorry. Eric Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 à 10:22 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) a écrit : > Because of locales and force vectors as locales over time in an > environment. To steer a market, the direct path is the most > expensive. Why don't the best win? That was Ayn Rand's dilemma. > Regardless of whether or not one subscribes to her social agenda, some > of her conclusions relate well to the current web zeitgeist. > > 1) There is an inverse relationship among the numbers of subjective > views and objective implementations. A Many To One relationship is > classically chaotic. > > 2) At the end of "Atlas Shrugged", Rand makes the point that > innovation is done in small teams in isolated locales to offset the > averaging effect of large social forces mediated through small groups > of appointed or self-appointed but mediocre authorities. > > The effect is discomfiting for some: most of the evolutionary > direction comes from sources that are almost invisible. (If you like, > the illuminati do exist but they don't party together in robes; they > barely know each other if at all). The other discomfiting effect is > that if, for example, you are in a company that has a 'special circle > of top performers selected by the employees', you may want to route > around these people if innovation is your goal. If stability is your > goal, you promote ideas through them. It is the American Idol effect. > > In chaos theory, weak signals presage emergence because strong signals > are heavily filtered. If you want a technology to dominate, keep it > small until just before you launch it but monitor the environment very > precisely. Listening is everything. Timing is everything else. > > len > > From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...] > > Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 à 08:43 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) a > écrit : > > There are no winners and losers. > > Good, this is the first time we do agree. > > But why this title "The Best Technologies Don't Win" and this trailing > sentence "Chalk up another win for objectivism." in your post that > started this thread, then? > > -- GPG-PGP: 2A528005 If you have a XML document, you have its schema. http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (ISO) RELAX NG ISBN:0-596-00421-4 http://oreilly.com/catalog/relax (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ceci est une partie de message=?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=
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