Danny Hillis (common culture)

 
environment 
most people like living in city or city-like environment, because we like our environments to be constant, stable and predictable.  

people like their environment to be within a range of predict ability - this is one reason why we have weather forecasting  

while we create (craft) artificial environment to grow food


     Of course there is a strong counterforce to keep the 
     environment uniform.  As Danny Hillis pointed out to 
     me, “The reason we create artificial environments 
          instead of accepting natural ones is that 
          we like our environments to be constant and 
          predictable. We used to have a computer editor 
          that let everyone have a different interface. 
          So we all did. Then we discovered it was a bad 
          idea because we couldn't use each other's 
          terminals. So we went back to the old way: a 
          shared interface, a common culture. That's part 
          of what brings us together as humans.”  
            ── Kevin Kelly, 1994,  
               from the book, Out of Control, 
               p.153, filename: ooc-mf.pdf   
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