The Burdens That Standards Bring--Roger Dickeson

Besides "standards" and "legacies" there are other like words we use such as "paradigms," "cultures" and "metaphors." All of these terms deal with efforts to achieve a uniformity that, in time, becomes a constraint on change. Measures, operating systems, languages and theologies—all are efforts to impose disciplines on human behavior and thinking. In so doing they make it difficult to advance with improvements in technology and thought.