Conventions and Routines

If everything is open, and all is apt to change, how do durable cooperative arrangements come to exist?

Some suggest that a set of organizational, institutional, and symbolic conventions for getting on with routine business despite heterogeneity is required, but if these conventions cannot be assumed a priori, how are they constructed?

Others seek to overcome this problem by questioning the need for rule-based behavior for getting most things done. "Good enough" is as good as it ever gets, whether you are speaking formally or informally about any form of social cooperation. But in that case, what about the situation discussed earlier where machines are becoming active members of Hybrid Intelligence Networks: Without rules, how can what is "good enough" for a machine in supporting cooperative work be defined?

⇒ Ethics and Global Responsible Thinking

⇒ Hybrid Intelligence Networks ⇒ Boundary Objects

Note: The second branch – ⇒ Hybrid Intelligence Networks ⇐ Boundary Objects – was rediscovered in cooperation with the Speed Bot – Monkey.