the pre-digital world was a world of profound physical and economic constraints.

At være “god til at netværke” er i den grad blevet et plus i karakterbogen. Det er der måske ikke så meget nyt i, men med et stigende antal digitale netværk er hastigheden, hvormed man kan opbygge et netværk, steget eksponentielt. Føhns on prof

learly something is still missing from the web 2.0 revolution and tons of social networks will fail in a few years as they fail to come up with more compelling ideas than ‘eyeballs for ads’.

the basics of what the internet did (and does) isn’t enough to explain its spread; what is it for has to be accounted for by looking at the difference between it and the other data-transfer networks of the day.

Today’s research community congratulates itself for the success of the internet and passionately argues whether circuits or datagrams are the One True Way. Meanwhile the list of unsolved problems grows.