The problem is the industrial line of production of reading material, the standardization of the imaginative process.
One of the latest of such ideas is standardization of side impact resistance of child seats.
EUDAT members work on a more broader idea of scientific data infrastructure standardization to order to go beyond one single project that culminated in an Europe-wide activity named as the Research Data Alliance (RDA) [12].
When you look at the variety of public schools that have worked well in the U.S. — in cities big and small, and in suburban and rural areas — you wonder why anyone thought it was a good idea to throw a stultifying blanket of standardization over the education of millions of kids of different aptitudes, interests and levels of maturity.
Curators Maddie Hewitt and Roopa Vasudevan were fascinated by the idea of finding humanity within technical standardization.
Attempts have been made to identify gaps, suggest ideas for future developments, and to emphasis the need of standardization.
It was Bailey's idea to hold Burberry's store windows to the same level of standardization as, say, McDonald's hamburgers.
The results showed that the possible reasons underlying this problem are the lack of standardization of the technique, transmission of a false idea of robustness, and the lack of a theoretical background.
"If the administration has the idea of using driver's s license standardization as a back door into a national ID card, then they are going to have a war on their hands," said Lorie Waters, executive director of Eagle Forum, a conservative group working with a coalition opposing national identification cards.
At present, in Franzen's humane, pessimistic view, our individuality is under assault from all quarters, and the novel is part of a web of modern institutions -- along with the daily mail, the industrial city and the idea of a democratic public sphere -- undermined by the irresistible (that is, both unstoppable and undeniably attractive) forces of standardization and privatization.
And the Olympics themselves became agents of standardization.
