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==== Open Source is Evolutionary ====

The open source software movement has generated tools used by billions. It generates collective knowledge and technologies worth trillions [Harvard Paper]. All of this is made possible not just through hard work and goodwill but with a piece of technology for making the development process visible to and modifiable by the crowd.

Git and [Github] is a piece of crucial infrastructure that enables this asynchronous global collaboration, revealing not just the final product but every incremental change to the system. The experiments and missteps, the negotiations between collaborators, every step of the process remains accessible to all. When a party wants to take a piece of code in a new direction, copying the codebase to a new project is called “forking”. What results is a complete tree of decisions, divergences and convergences that reveal not just what worked but the process through which it came about.

Holoscopic is evolutionary in that sequences can be copied and altered. Users can begin with established tools and make nudging improvements or adapt them to their community. The evolution of how the collective accesses key ideas becomes visible through the chain of adaptations as their work their way through the community.