CHAPTER 11

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The Master Table

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, “Things don’t look like that!”

David Hockney, artist

Every LinkedIn user, similar to a router, has some directly connected contacts. It is presumed that information about each such subscriber is collated to create a central database of directly connected contacts of all subscribers. The record of each LinkedIn subscriber in the central database can be of a standard format.

The information in this database can be manipulated for developing additional databases, one per ...

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