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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (96508)	2/9/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

The Law of Telecosm or the power or P(n)=n2-What on the wired world will this mean? Paul: A very interesting article from The Time magazine on the future of Information Technology & how it might change the world as we know it. The article is 8 pages long, a bit lengthy, but fascinating especially when one considers the implication this may have for our little old company and the role DELL will play in this revolution. ===================================== Excerpts from TIMES ......................... Call it the networked decade--the last one of the century, chimed in by an overture of dial tones, rings and beeps. If the 1980s brought a personal computer to every desktop, surely the 1990s is bringing each PC a connection to the global Internet. And just as the PC boom was fueled by the silicon logic of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore--who predicted in 1965 that processor power would double every 18 months--the networked decade seems to have been prefigured by a law of its own, Robert Metcalfe's Law of the Telecosm. Metcalfe, whose Harvard Ph.D. dissertation led directly to his invention of the Ethernet in 1973, has pegged the power of a network--literally how much it can do--to the square of the number of connected machines: P(n)=n2. It is a breathtaking proposition that takes up, perhaps, too little space on the page. But the implications from the simple logic are easy enough to trace, and they will fill volumes of history yet to be written: that the Internet as we know it today will be over 100 times more powerful an informational tool by century's end; that each newly connected PC boosts the power of the network not geometrically but exponentially; that autarchy is forever dead. Brazen, perhaps, but after decades of uninterrupted technological acceleration, even the most pie-eyed technophiles are starting to adjust to the Gs. All they can think to ask is, "What on earth will this mean?" cgi.pathfinder.com