Abstract:
This article suggests that it may be timely to action the relationship between design
and evolution. While this view is not particularly new, the form of its expression
here may be. It is noted that the exponential (possibly double exponential) rate of
technological change, and the merging of the technological evolutionary lineage
with those of biology, cognition, and socioculture is causing greatly accelerated
evolution in these latter lineages. So rapid are these change processes that the attendant
evolutionary time frames are becoming consonant with those of human design
activities. Implications of these developments are outlined.
