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 “'''Fashion'''” is ephemeral, random, dynamic, fluctuating, noisy —  in the sense of “loud” and in the sense of “obscuring signal” — but even this can effect the adjacent layers if persistent through time.
-’'[[Technology]] is not a layer'' but operates across the spectrum at different layers, which means you should be careful, [[legaltechbro]]s, to consider where your application fits in.<ref>[https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cjjZ4mjKHcEfOHraLimzb? Stewart Brand and Paul Saffo, ''Pace Layers Thinking] (about 38 minutes in).</ref>
+''[[Technology]] is not a layer'' but operates across the spectrum at different layers, which means you should be careful, [[legaltechbro]]s, to consider where your application fits in.<ref>[https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cjjZ4mjKHcEfOHraLimzb? Stewart Brand and Paul Saffo, ''Pace Layers Thinking] (about 38 minutes in).</ref>
 There are resonances here with the the [[end-to-end principle]] of network architecture — Brand describes [[complex adaptive system]]s in terms of social structures successive layers. For the internet that is its packet-switching basic layer; for a society it may be chemistry, physics, and biology. The essential way everything is wired. Brand calls this “nature”. To change this is profoundly difficult — any change you make can fundamentally break any layer that depends on it — so any changes that do happen very slowly and deliberately.