It’s a dangerous world out there. Technological progress and increasing complexity constantly create new hazards. Our first line of defense is protocols, which I define as intentional patterns of constraint on human behavior. How do these patterns develop? This essay derives a theory of protocol evolution from historical improvements in workplace safety, and| Summer of Protocols
Summer of Protocols (SoP) program has funded a wide range of research and fieldwork in what is now a robust young multi-disciplinary field we call Protocol Studies. For the 2025 program, we would like to invite talented educators interested in teaching this emerging discipline to apply to our Curriculum Development Program.| Summer of Protocols
In the Fall of 2022, the word protocol was suddenly everywhere. The proximal cause was obvious: fueled, in part, by the highly visible and fractious change of ownership at Twitter, large numbers of people began heading for the exits. Most of them, of course, were just looking for| Summer of Protocols
