The author of the referenced post, Venkatesh Rao is a unique cat. The terms/concepts are from him and he's been building up a lexicon for years.
He deals in abstract concepts, and it's semi-humourous by intention. The most widely read but is a long series on a "nature of the firm" concept developed by analysing "The Office."
Top down, in this context, means something like Canberra. A city that was built from comprehensive designs created a priori and a formalized (legible, in Venkat's terms) decision making processes.
Bottom-up means something like language, which is created by people using an illegible (more or less meaning impossible to describe mechanically) and distributed decision making processes.
Personally, I think bits of it are quite brilliant.
He deals in abstract concepts, and it's semi-humourous by intention. The most widely read but is a long series on a "nature of the firm" concept developed by analysing "The Office."
Top down, in this context, means something like Canberra. A city that was built from comprehensive designs created a priori and a formalized (legible, in Venkat's terms) decision making processes.
Bottom-up means something like language, which is created by people using an illegible (more or less meaning impossible to describe mechanically) and distributed decision making processes.
Personally, I think bits of it are quite brilliant.