Our faulty intuition about open systems

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Boing Boing: Our faulty intuition about open systems

Jamie Boyle’s latest Financial Times column points up a cognitive bias we seem to have against open systems — on their face, open networks, encyclopedias, and software projects seem unlikely, even doomed. Our intuition about closed-vs-open is often wrong:

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