To do: concepts of performance in design

In Perform or Else, Jon McKenzie uncovers an uncanny relationship between cultural, organizational, and technological performance. His conclusion--that performance will be to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries what discipline was to the eighteenth and nineteenth--is an exhilarating realization of how culture, business, and science have become hyperlinked through globalization.

I never seem to get around to doing the review of the history of performance in design and as a design method.