ARTICLE: The Protocol Society, By DAVID BROOKS, New York Times, December 22, 2009

Nice piece by Brooks.

Will sound awfully familiar to readers of this blog. Just substitute "rule sets" for protocols. Algorithms work nicely too!

Been saying it for over a decade (all the way back to TheRuleSets.Project days): America's most important exports are its rules.

We consider it soft power; others view it more harshly (or hard-ly).

(Thanks: Eric Fisher)