To some extent the ideas seem to be now “in the water”. The maths part is something now more developed under the study of complex networks. Alexander’s general ideas about design inspired people to create wikis, patterns in software movement, to some extent objective oriented programming, and extreme programming, and some urbanists… which made me motivated to read more from of him.
(Btw in another response here, I pointed toward Wikipedia as a project with some interesting social technology behind it. So, it’s probably worth to note that a lot of the social technology was originally created/thought about at wikis like Meatball and the original WikiWiki by Ward Cunningham who was in turn inspired by Alexander.)
My rough understanding:
To some extent the ideas seem to be now “in the water”. The maths part is something now more developed under the study of complex networks. Alexander’s general ideas about design inspired people to create wikis, patterns in software movement, to some extent objective oriented programming, and extreme programming, and some urbanists… which made me motivated to read more from of him.
(Btw in another response here, I pointed toward Wikipedia as a project with some interesting social technology behind it. So, it’s probably worth to note that a lot of the social technology was originally created/thought about at wikis like Meatball and the original WikiWiki by Ward Cunningham who was in turn inspired by Alexander.)