Chapter 2. Ten Technology Trends
All major technology trends both impact and are impacted by NDC development. The extent to which the Internet is bound to exponential growth phenomena is reflected by the innovations coming from the communities that have embraced it.
To identify a trend, we must establish a measurable threshold of participation by agents within a fitscape. The adoption of a given technology is a function of a complex set of relationships among agents, governed by economic principles and assumptions and measured accordingly.
All major technology trends today are either direct beneficiaries of the metatrends (the Nth Laws) cited in Chapter 1 or are cousins of those trends, and all have direct impact on NDC development. Each trend is ...
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