Hi Steve:
Regarding your comments: ".... Truthfully I think there is a constant ebb
and flow of diversity vs. unification in standards.... Business processes
are similar. Competition eventually evolves some common standards. Except
then someone (like Dell or WalMart) is always coming in with a new better
idea (or different) and we go through diversity all over again. Perhaps in
the much bigger picture, this ebb and flow is an inextricable part of life
driven by the ebb and flow of the "great cosmic dance" described in the
Vedas. In this case, there is no end. :)"
I would submit that you are right on target, from a "scientific"
perspective. The balance/interaction scenarios of the "cosmic dance"
between chaos and order, change and stability, complexity and
simplification, divergence and convergence, variance and standard, etc., all
relate to evolutionary adaptation to environmental changes and then the
subsequent gradual reduction of the overhead burden that enabled survival of
the change.
As reference, read "Turbulent Mirror", by John Briggs and F. David Peat,
Copyright 1989, Harper and Row Publishers, ISBN 0-06-016061-6. (Any
relation to Bruce Peat?) I've also got another reference from an excellent
Scientific American article from several years back on this same premise,
but I'll have to do some digging in my library for it.
Roy
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