# List of things that affect dispersion * Regulation can be either dissipative for things like drugs where you actually need to spend money or inertial where it just makes it take more time as the thing propagates through a bureaucracy * The difficulty of actually understanding and implementing the change affects the stiffness * Communication speed is a stiffness effect - either because the types of people around the world who implement it don’t have good ways of communicating or becuse the * Alternatives * [[Efficiency type heuretics can be breakthroughs when they get a thing to cross some threshold]] * [[Dispersion has regulatory risks]] * [[Dispersion has consumer, cost, and regulatory risks]] * [[Dispersion has cost risks]] ### Related * [[Technology Readiness and the Valley of Death]] * - `Expectation is that once “Subsystem/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment” has been done there should be no reason why a technology is developed everywhere but this is not true.` * “ities” are expensive to address, but aren’t wrapped up in “it works” * reliability (complex systems) * availability (complex systems) * maintainability (complex systems) * supportability (complex systems) * transportability (aircraft) * survivability (aircraft) * Suceptability (aircraft) * vulnerability (aircraft) * affordability <!-- #list #needs/work --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/List+of+things+that+affect+dispersion) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/List+of+things+that+affect+dispersion)