The evolutionary ecology of technological innovations
Technological evolution has been compared to biological evolution by many authors over the last two centuries. As a parallel experiment of innovation involving economic, historical, and social components, artifacts define a universe of evolving properties that displays episodes of diversification and extinction. Here, we critically review previous work comparing the two types of evolution. Like biological evolution, technological evolution is driven by descent with variation and selection, and includes tinkering, convergence, and contingency. At the same time, there are essential differences that make the two types of evolution quite distinct. Major distinctions are illustrated by current specific examples, including the evolution of cornets and the historical dynamics of information technologies. Due to their fast and rich development, the later provide a unique opportunity to study technological evolution at all scales with unprecedented resolution. Despite the presence of patterns suggesting convergent trends between man-made systems end biological ones, they provide examples of planned design that have no equivalent with natural evolution. Copyright © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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dig-ibe-es-10261-1157862018-10-03T10:17:11Z The evolutionary ecology of technological innovations Solé, Ricard V. Valverde, Sergi Rosas-Casals, Martí Kauffman, Stuart A. Farmer, Doyne Eldredge, Niles Technology Evolution Culturomics Convergence Information technology Tinkering Technological evolution has been compared to biological evolution by many authors over the last two centuries. As a parallel experiment of innovation involving economic, historical, and social components, artifacts define a universe of evolving properties that displays episodes of diversification and extinction. Here, we critically review previous work comparing the two types of evolution. Like biological evolution, technological evolution is driven by descent with variation and selection, and includes tinkering, convergence, and contingency. At the same time, there are essential differences that make the two types of evolution quite distinct. Major distinctions are illustrated by current specific examples, including the evolution of cornets and the historical dynamics of information technologies. Due to their fast and rich development, the later provide a unique opportunity to study technological evolution at all scales with unprecedented resolution. Despite the presence of patterns suggesting convergent trends between man-made systems end biological ones, they provide examples of planned design that have no equivalent with natural evolution. Copyright © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Peer Reviewed 2015-05-27T10:07:45Z 2015-05-27T10:07:45Z 2013 2015-05-27T10:07:45Z artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 doi: 10.1002/cplx.21436 issn: 1076-2787 e-issn: 1099-0526 Complexity 18(4): 15- 27 (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/115786 10.1002/cplx.21436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21436 Sí none John Wiley & Sons |
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Technological evolution has been compared to biological evolution by many authors over the last two centuries. As a parallel experiment of innovation involving economic, historical, and social components, artifacts define a universe of evolving properties that displays episodes of diversification and extinction. Here, we critically review previous work comparing the two types of evolution. Like biological evolution, technological evolution is driven by descent with variation and selection, and includes tinkering, convergence, and contingency. At the same time, there are essential differences that make the two types of evolution quite distinct. Major distinctions are illustrated by current specific examples, including the evolution of cornets and the historical dynamics of information technologies. Due to their fast and rich development, the later provide a unique opportunity to study technological evolution at all scales with unprecedented resolution. Despite the presence of patterns suggesting convergent trends between man-made systems end biological ones, they provide examples of planned design that have no equivalent with natural evolution. Copyright © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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The evolutionary ecology of technological innovations |
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