Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The existence of a standardized receptacle delivering standardized voltage to ...
The existence of a standardized receptacle delivering standardized voltage to standardized contacts let all *kinds* of gadgets be designed to fit in that socket.
Standards crystallize the space of all possible ways of solving a problem into a range of solutions. This inevitably has a downside, because the standardized range might not be optimal for all applications.
8/
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