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gilmore's law

Gilmore of the eponymous law

April 29, 2009 by Kate Carruthers with 91 views

~ A few times now I’ve referred to Gilmore’s Law and wanted to share a bit more about its author. John Gilmore is one of the true mavericks of the Internet, and he is a self-described entrepreneur and civil libertarian. His ideas are further out on the edge than most, but I think our society needs people who question and push the... [read more]

On our way to a networked society

April 28, 2009 by Kate Carruthers with 348 views

In an earlier generation all computer networks were for business or the military. That is, they were point-to-point connections between large organizations and were vastly expensive to set up and run. But the invention of TCP/IP and the modern internet changed all that. Now networks are between ordinary people using simple and easy to... [read more]

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