Quote of the Day: hindsight quazi-linear graph

[timelets]

It is important to recognize that, in the view of the actors of those days, these variants were at the same time quite different from each other and equally were serious rivals. It is only by retrospective distortion that a quasi-linear development emerges, as depicted in figure 4.
Bijker, Wiebe E., et al. The Social Construction of Technological Systems : New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, MIT Press, 2012.

Hindsight seems to be rearranging connections b/w objects. The set of artifacts contains the same entities, but the structure turns into a poset.

In deciding which problems are relevant, the social groups concerned with the artifact and the meanings that those groups give to the artifact play a crucial role: A problem is defined as such only when there is a social group for which it constitutes a “problem.”

Comments

[norian]

это как дарвиновский отбор - пока вид не стал единственным выжившим, он один среди многих

ну то есть разные модели - все виды на определенный момент и выжившие/вымершие на более поздний

[timelets]

Я не знаю биологию достаточно хорошо, чтобы сравнивать эти два процесса. Очевидно, что при переходе из прошлого в будущее теряется информация. Возможно, есть какой-то внутренний предел, который вынуждает эту потерю.