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07 Jan 08

EDUCAUSE Publications: Educom Review March/April, 1999

  • In fact the most
    successful systems that humans have been able to design are ones in which
    most of the design effort goes into letting the system be able to grow in a
    fashion that detects and corrects the error, so that the system doesn't
    come apart. The Internet is a good example of that, because it's something
    that didn't require any central control and wasn't constructed, the way a
    clock is constructed. Another good example is the American Constitution,
    because the people who designed it realized that it would be very difficult
    to write laws for how people should live 50 years from their time and
    place, so they wisely made most of the Constitution a way of dealing with
    error situations that would come up and a way of keeping bad things from
    propagating. They didn't try to tell people how they should live over the
    next two centuries.
  • The reason our group has been successful is
    that our whole development system is designed to allow us to late-bind
    things that we discover along the way, things we would not have to find out
    along the way if we had a real engineering discipline.
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