PART ONE:
TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS AND SUCCESSIVE GREAT SURGES OF DEVELOPMENT

1. The Turbulent Ending of the Twentieth Century
2. Technological Revolutions and Techno-Economic Paradigms
3. The Social Shaping of Technological Revolutions
4. The Propagation of Paradigms: Times of Installation, Times of Deployment
5. The Four Basic Phases of Each Surge of Development
6. Uneven Development and Time-Lags in Diffusion

PART TWO:
TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS AND THE CHANGING BEHAVIOR OF FINANCIAL CAPITAL

7. Financial capital and Production Capital
8. Maturity: Financial Capital Planting the Seeds of Turbulence
at the End of the Previous Surge
9. Irruption: The Love Affair of Financial Capital with the Technological Revolution
10. Frenzy: Self-Sufficient Financial Capital Governing the Casino
11. The Turning Point: Rethinking, Regulation and Changeover
12. Synergy: Supporting the Expansion of the Paradigm across the Productive Structure
13. The Changing Nature of Financial and Institutional Innovations

PART THREE:
THE RECURRING SEQUENCE, ITS CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS

14. The Sequence and its driving forces
15. The Implications for Theory and Policy

EPILOGUE: THE WORLD AT THE TURNING POINT

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

I got tagged with a meme a few weeks ago and I refused to do it.

If you have no idea what Im talking about, you are lucky. Memes can be defined in a lot of different ways depending on the context of their usage. In this case, a meme is a set of questions that are passed from person to person. You fill out the questions. Post them on your blog. Then you tag another blogger who is supposed to do the same thing. Its supposed to be “viral fun” . Yes, bloggers are that hard up for fun.

It has the same intellectual resonance as doing The Wave at an event. You are embarrased if you do it sober, beligerant to non wavers if you do it drunk.

Memes come in all shapes in sizes. The 4 Things meme is what is getting waved around now.

If you are tagged, you are asked 4 Things

- 4 Jobs I have had, 4 Movies I can watch over and over, 4 TV shows I watch, 4 places i have been on vacation

Can we all just disagree that this is pretty damn stupid ?

If you want to fillup a page on myspace or tagworld, meme away. But my goodness, real bloggers are answering memes. RSS feeds around the world are getting headlines with dumbass meme responses. Is this because of Bloggers Cramp ?

I dont know. The wave’s best days are behind it. We need to put question memes on the bench right next to it

Mark Cuban on Memes

MySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users.

"MySpace is more potent and powerful than even we knew. And it is becoming a more integrated part of people’s lives." However, as efforts grow to attract more advertisers to the site, News Corp is facing two challenges. Young users have to keep wanting to use the site, rather than switch to a "cooler" alternative, such as MemeStreams.

Also, advertisers have to feel confident their reputation will not be tainted by “inappropriate” content.

MySpace acts to calm teen safety fears

I'm going to suggest a natural language interpretation of what we can learn from the Internet routing table and from the archives of the routing table.

You don't see, until very recently, much that actually has been trying to associate with these logical layer endings with geopolitical endings until very recently.

...

It seems to me, based on this data, that proliferation of Autonomous Systems is a useful measure or benchmark of one element of efficiency which contributes to national network economy, which is to say domestic wholesale capacity market, the course fibre part.

And the growth of Internet production without corresponding proliferation, diversification, of AS numbers may be, in effect, indicative of bottlenecks which may be harmful or may actually impede the rate of national network growth.

Infrastructure, Innovation and the Digital Divide in Asia: Lessons from Internet production history

With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. But these results are by no means inevitable: a systematic campaign to protect the entrenched industrial information economy of the last century threatens the promise of today’s emerging networked information environment.

In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing—and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gained—or lost—by the decisions we make today.

This book is not related to Tom Vest's book of the same name.

The Wealth of Networks, by Yochai Benkler

This book is not related to Benkler's book of the same name.

An empirical exploration of the nature and causes of global Internet development from November 1997 to the present, based on an operationally informed, natural language interpretation of the Internet routing table.

This site is still coming online. Check out the briefing, "The Wealth of Networks: An Old Formula for Understanding the New Global Information Economy."

The Wealth of Networks, by Tom Vest

The packet pair technique aims to estimate the capacity of a path (bottleneck bandwidth) from the dispersion of two equal-sized probing packets sent back-to-back. It has also been argued that the dispersion of longer packet bursts (packet trains) can estimate the available bandwidth of a path. This paper examines such packet pair and packet train dispersion techniques in depth. First we demonstrate that, in general, packet pair bandwidth measurements follow a multimodal distribution, and explain the causes of multiple local modes. The path capacity is a local mode, often different than the global mode of this distribution. We illustrate the effects of network load, cross traffic packet size variability, and probing packet size on the bandwidth distribution of packet pairs. We then switch to the dispersion of long packet trains. The mean of the packet train dispersion distribution corresponds to a bandwidth metric that we refer to as Average Dispersion Rate (ADR). We show that the ADR is a lower bound of the capacity and an upper bound of the available bandwidth of a path. Putting all pieces together, we present a capacity estimation methodology that has been implemented in a tool called pathrate. We report on our experiences with pathrate after having measured hundreds of Internet paths over the last three years.

Packet dispersion techniques and capacity estimation

This season, the protests aren't in far-off housing projects, but right under our eyes.

The Sorbonne, symbolic center of the intelligentsia, has been sealed off by the police.

French Twist

"When I moved here after college," she added, "I didn't realize that along with rent, phone and utilities, I'd have this huge expense for hair."

Golden Girls

Will Wright explains how games are unleashing the human imagination.

Dream Machines | Will Wright in Wired