Title
ABSTRACT: TOWARDS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF COMMONALITIES
Author
Andrew Updegrove
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2005)
(Original Publish Date: 2005)
Abstract
Commonalities, or consensus-based tools of which standards are only the most recent and highly evolved example, have been developed since the dawn of humanity. New types of commonalities, such as open source software, continue to be created organically, indicating that the concept of commonalities is intrinsic to how human beings address the world, how they solve problems, and how they choose to interact productively. The author suggests that an interdisciplinary approach to the study of how commonalities are created and used can yield lessons that are useful in a broad range of applications, from optimizing the governmental process to providing greater insight into what it means to be human.
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