Screwed-up, evolvable protocols that out-learn well-designed solutions

http://www.shirky.com/writings/evolve.html

Clay Shirky theorizing

This essay was written eight years ago and I

haven't read it till now. I really dig it when

you read some assertion about the Web that's

eight years old, and it makes better sense

now than it did when it was written.

Either Clay Shirky is impressively prescient,

or this is some kind of genuine principle here.

Maybe both!