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by BillSeitz
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Aug 14, 2008 3:01 pm |
Jon Udell is reading David Gelernter's [Mirror Worlds] and [Albert Laszlo Barabosi]'s Linked. Terminology aside, what's most compelling here is the notion that these are universal properties of networks of all kinds: molecular, hypertextual, social, transportation. And further, that hubs - whether they are the Chicagos and Atlantas of air travel, or the Yahoos and Googles of the Web, or the Mavens and Connectors of Malcolm Gladwell's social universe - arise inevitably, and are sources of both immense power and frightening vulnerability... How do you gain control of this unpilotable airplane (metaphor for New Economy organizations)? Pervasive instrumentation, transparency, Distributed Computing, Loosely Coupled.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog