4 In DeLongs view: DeLongs essay "Old Ideas
for the New Economy," in Rewired, www.rewired.com.
8 "Listen to the technology": Quoted by George
Gilder in the Gilder Technology Report, November 1996.
10 a transistor cost: "Happy 50th" by Heidi
Elliott, in Electronic Business, December 1997.
10 trillion objects manufactured: Estimated by multiplying
the estimated average number of objects one person buys in a year by the
number of adults.
10 200 million computers: DataQuest.
10 number of noncomputer chips: DataQuest.
14 Tree of Life:
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html.
15 GM saves $1.5 million: "What Complexity Theory Can
Teach Business" by David Berreby, in Strategy & Business Issue
3, 1996.
16 a computer flight simulator: This audience participation
technology is operated by Cinematrix Interactive Entertainment Systems,
Novato, CA, (415) 892-8254, or cies@nbn.com.
28 "If a product": "Increasing Returns and
the New World of Business," by W. Brian Arthur, in Harvard
Business Review, July 1996
31 "Technology is the campfire": "Change is
Good," Wired, January 1998.
36 "the only reliable predictor": "Chaos in
Hollywood" by John Cassidy, in The New Yorker, March 31, 1997.
49 Gilders Law: "Fiber Keeps Its Promise,"
by George Gilder, in Forbes ASAP, April 1997.
52 "in the Network Economy": "Entertainment
Values: Will Capitalism Go Hollywood?" by Paul Krugman, in Slate,
January 22, 1998.
55 "What information consumes": "The
Information Economy" by Hal Varian, Scientific American, September
1995.
56 first 1,000 days of the webs life: Brewster
Kahles internet backup site www.archive.org.
59 "The creator who": "Intellectual
Value" by Esther Dyson, in Wired, July 1995.
63 "A web limits risk": "Spider versus
Spider" by John Hagel III, in McKinsey Quarterly, 1966 No. 1.
63 "Players compete not by locking in":
"Increasing Returns and the New World of Business," by W.
Brian Arthur, in Harvard Business Review, July 1996.
64 in the 1890s, electricity: "Computer and
Dynamo" by Paul David, in Technology and Productivity, OECD,
1991.
68 "Law is becoming irrelevant": Quoted by David
Brin in The Transparent Society, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
69 boasted of an estimated 120 million: Nua Ltd., May
1998.
69 If current rates continue: International
Telecommunications Union 1998 Report.
71 $212 billion on information: Information Technology
Industry Council.
72 Rocky Mountain Institute: Home page at www.rmi.org.
72 electronics in a car: "Ubiquitous Computing" by
Sean Baenen at Global Business Network.
75 "The time may come": Pop Internationalism, by
Paul Krugman, MIT Press, 1996.
80 "Firms are remarkably creative": Mastering the
Dynamics of Innovation, by James M. Utterback, Harvard Business School
Press, 1994.
83 "Successful firms often": "Recent
Evolutionary Theorizing About Economic Change," by Richard Nelson,
in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1995.
85 David Ackley: "Interactions Between Learning and
Evolution" by David H. Ackley and M. L. Littman, in Artificial Life
II, edited by C. G. Langton, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
104 the half-life of Texan businesses: "A Nanaoeconomic
Perspective on the Growth and Development of the Texas Manufacturing
Base, 19701991," by Donald Hicks, in A Report Prepared for
the Office of the Comptroller, State of Texas.
104 the European Union: "A Second American
Century" by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, in Foreign Affairs, May/June
1998.
106 "Youre pitchforking a bunch of
freelancers": Bruce Sterlings speech at the 1998 Computers
Freedom and Privacy Conference in Austin, Texas.
106 entertainment complex: "Why Every Business Will Be
Like Show Business," by Joel Kotkin and David Friedman, in Inc,
March 1995.
110 "the Mecca of the economist": Quoted by
Richard Nelson, in "Recent Evolutionary Theorizing About Economic
Change," by Richard Nelson, in Journal of Economic Literature,
March 1995.
118 an emerging standard called P3P: Maintained by Firefly,
www.firefly.net.
122 sites such as Junglee or Jango: www.junglee.com,
www.jango.com.
125 "the new economy begins": "Whats So
New about the New Economy?" by Alan Weber, in Harvard Business
Review, January/February 1993.
127 "Whatever the Government": "The Telephone
TransformedInto Almost Everything," by James Gleick, in
The New York Times Magazine, May 16, 1993.
128 protocols such as Truste: www.truste.org.
134 4 quadrillion dollars: This rough guesstimate was
extrapolated from the annual growth in the worlds GDP. The current
global economy is approaching $40 trillion. Since economies grow about
1% annually, the entire active economy can be considered 1% of the total
value of everything created previously, or 4 quadrillion dollars in
replacement value.
134 "Humans on average": The Ultimate Resource, by
Julian Simon, Princeton University Press, 1996.
137 More than 320 million web pages: Brewster Kahles
internet backup at www.archive.org.
139 "Productivity isnt everything": The Age
of Diminishing Expectations, by Paul Krugman, MIT Press, 1994.
140 a rise in productivity: The Rise of the Network Society,
by Manuel Castells, Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
141 IBM alone sold: "Mainframe Business, Though Faded,
Is Still Far from Extinct" by Lawrence Fisher, The New York Times,
May 18, 1998.
144 "When a merchant sells a consumer": Unlimited
Wealth, by Paul Zane Pilzer, Crown Publishers, 1990.
145 93% of Americans officially classified: Quoting Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas economist Michael Cox, in an interview in
"Wealth If You Want It," by Kevin Kelly, Wired, November
1996.
14849 28% of U.S. households: "A Second American
Century," by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, in Foreign Affairs, May/June
1998.
150 "Lending to poor people": "Credit where
credit is due: Bringing microfinance into the mainstream," by Peter
Montagnon, Center for the Study of Financial Innovation, February
1998.
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