Importance and Complexity
Nothing in our modern civilization goes so quickly to the root of our ultimate destiny, philosophy, and politics of life as this matter of standardization
When studying the process by which voluntary standards are developed, one is struck by the complexity and subtlety of the process.
Norman F. Harriman, Standards
and Standardization (1920)
Martin B.H. Weiss & Marvin Sirbu,
“Technological Choice in a Voluntary
Standards Committee” (1990)