>>This thread is the table of contents; the full story is in the cited documents.<<
Sections:
History: Manufacturing
Now: Information Services
Future: A Marketplace Combining Two Levels of Standardization
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Manufacturing of mechanical systems transformed from individual craftsmanship to industrialization in the 19th century, largely driven by governments’ interest in standardizing weapons manufacturing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchan…
history.com/topics/inventi…
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First, the meme “interchangeable parts”, the way the 19th century revolution is described, is irrelevant to information services, and even misses a big point for manufacturing.
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oncenter.com/blog/article/t…)
and, importantly, screw-thread standardization...
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boltscience.com/pages/screw2.h…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_thr…
Many of these new standards required training a generation of new practitioners, for example, draftsmen, electricians, and machine-tool operators.
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Now: Information Services
The industrialization of information services is at a very early stage of this process, and progress along its broad front is uneven.
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In the following I'll convey a vision of a path forward.
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This concept has come together in the last few years. It has six parts, enumerated below. Because this is Twitter I’ll briefly describe each part and give you links to more specific information.
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melconway.com/Working/WP_20.…)
B. The interconnection pattern is the set of wiring rules enforced by the wiring tool. (Four slides beginning at melconway.com/talks/2019_con…)
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The platform is the wiring tool and a commons of building blocks and subassemblies.
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D. There is a well developed visual application model (based on the “connection hypothesis”) for a single use case of a business application.
melconway.com/talks/2019_con…
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eventmodeling.org/posts/what-is-…
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melconway.com/Working/WP_20.….
See example 6 (page 40) of the "DOer-SHOWer" pattern (page 25).
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