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Evolution
When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in the middle of the nineteenth century, this was a revolution not just for biology. His theory describes the change and adaptation of living creatures through natural selection over generations: features that promote survival succeed, which leads to a differentiation of the individual species. The animal and plant world can react to changes in environmental conditions with versatility and adaptability again and again. Evolution is a type of process-oriented quality management of nature.
Beyond biology, the term "evolution" describes an optimization method: Everything that works is good and must be preserved. What does not work is improved. A solution that has proven itself once is not static, but rather must be subjected to new tests and adapted again and again. Through these feedback processes, it is possible to react adequately to changes in the external conditions.
The Internet now gives us the opportunity to map evolutionary developments in a time grid, so to speak, in that the selection of the temporal verticals is moved to the horizontal. Adaptation and optimization processes that took millennia in nature to appear in the gene pool of a species can be accelerated in the World Wide Web due to the synchronized access of many people at once.
Our procedure goes beyond the purely evolutionary, however; it is filtered evolution: We take action in a targeted manner and exclude any steps backward or sideways in the meantime. In contrast to evolution (which has no concrete objective, not even survival), we very much have an objective: the best possible working solution. To guarantee that the quality of our solutions remains constant once achieved, we only permit improvements and progress. We use the evolutionary effects of the developer community, but only those that actually bring our solutions further.
