In March ’07, I wrote a short EM article about the nature of prototypes. When I was a kid, I thought a prototype was a car, because the only time I ever heard anybody talk about them was on TV in connection with never-before-seen-cars-of-the-future. Later, I found out prototypes aren’t actually cars, but some sort of abstract model. Still later, in graduate school, I learned how research psychologists talk about prototypes: as highly typical exemplars of a category. To b...
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