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Kleinberg was trying to understand network behavior. Page and Brin were building something.

Complex systems science is different. It seeks order by understanding how simple parts, interacting together and perhaps adapting to one another, create an entirely new whole. The

Palm adopted a sophisticated multisided platform strategy to secure its position in handhelds. According to Dubinsky, “We are a platform business. The idea in the beginning of a platform business is to get as much market share and installed base as possible, to draw as many developers as possible.”26 The tactics were similar to those we have seen a

The research for the State of DevOps Reports from 2013 to 2019 was a cross-population study that spanned over thirty-six thousand respondents over six years. It showed that architecture determined if it was possible for teams to:58 •make large-scale changes to the design of the system without the permission of someone outside the team or depending

The historian David Edgerton, in his book The Shock of the Old, describes the lines along which much contemporary popular thinking about technology tends to run. Obsessions with the technological standouts of the twentieth century—flight, nuclear power, the birth control pill, the internet—are shaped by a myopic and linear view of history, one pred

Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds.

The scientists could move from one project to another, which meant, member Chuck Thacker recalled, the best projects attracted the best people and “as a result, quality work flourished, less interesting work tended to wither.”

An important aspect of design is the degree to which the object involves you in its ow