The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
by Richard Baldwin · 10 Jan 2019 · 301pp · 89,076 words
networks, like Facebook with its two billion users. There is a very good reason for this—it’s called Metcalf’s law. Metcalf’s Law Robert Metcalf—the third and least colorful of the digital lawmakers—observed that being connected to a network gets more valuable as the network grows, even as
The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things
by Daniel Kellmereit and Daniel Obodovski · 19 Sep 2013 · 138pp · 40,787 words
awareness. As Peggy Smedley says: It’s all of these great minds that helped us understand what the technology can do for us, people like Robert Metcalfe or Steve Jobs and other great visionaries. They helped us really understand what the technologies can do, what the data behind the technologies can do
Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do
by Brett King · 26 Dec 2012 · 382pp · 120,064 words
and testing with target customers or users. LIBOR: London Interbank Offered Rate LinkedIn: An online social network for business professionals. Metcalfe’s Law: Attributed to Robert Metcalfe, this law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You
by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker · 27 Mar 2016 · 421pp · 110,406 words
of encapsulating how network effects create value for those who participate in a network as well as for those who own or manage the network. Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, pointed out that the value of a telephone network grows nonlinearly as the number of subscribers to
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long-term growth and success of a platform. It is achieved through excellence in product or service curation. Metcalfe’s law. A principle formulated by Robert Metcalfe which states that the value of a network grows nonlinearly as the number of users of the network increases, making more connections among users possible
Commodore: A Company on the Edge
by Brian Bagnall · 13 Sep 2005 · 781pp · 226,928 words
the back but we knew we couldn’t put the IEEE-488 on it,” says Seiler. Chuck Peddle hired a former Xerox PARC engineer named Robert Metcalfe to help his engineers figure out the port. “He organized the meetings at Moorpark with Metcalfe because we were trying to design an expansion bus
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we couldn’t put the expensive HP IEEE bus in it so we tried to come up with something cheaper.” “That summer in San Jose, Robert Metcalfe was a consultant who worked for Commodore before he founded 3Com,” says Feagans. “He was hired as a consultant to look at networking.” Metcalfe pitched
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Jim Finke.” At the newly reopened Moorpark offices, where the disk drive designers now resided, Feagans continued working on the concepts introduced to him by Robert Metcalfe, including networking and graphical user interfaces. The others began work on a data storage device using VCR tape. Robert Russell, the young engineer hired in
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music player for the launch of the C64 there and stayed to develop the Commodore network for the C64 and PET,” he says. Inspired by Robert Metcalfe’s visit in 1980, Feagans created a computer network. His network required a master computer, which served up to 10 slaves. “I created a plug
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at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The idea of a GUI intrigued Feagans while he was still working on PET computers. Xerox PARC veteran Robert Metcalfe had visited Commodore in 1980, and relayed the amazing developments occurring at the research center. “Perhaps this was the inspiration [for designing a GUI],” says
The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
by Matthew Hindman · 24 Sep 2018
policy. Second, there is the persistent misuse of “Metcalfe’s Law,” a rule of thumb—and definitely not a real law—named after ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe. As popularly understood, Metcalfe’s Law claims that the value of a network increases with the square of the number of connected users. A network
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
zero, they did not feel compelled to drive their winners to 10x or higher. The contrast between the coasts was crystallized in the story of Bob Metcalfe.[22] A self-styled “Viking-American,” with grandparents from Oslo, Bergen, Leeds, and Dublin, Metcalfe sported bushy strawberry-blond hair and wing tip loafers and
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for dinner? The Krauses duly dined with Metcalfe and Charney. Afterward Gay said, “Howard Charney’s the smartest guy I ever met.” Then she added, “Bob Metcalfe’s the most charismatic guy I ever met.” Then she demanded, “What the hell do they need you for?” “Is that a yes?” Krause asked
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the same role at the computer science department. Their offices were separated by only five hundred yards, but their machines could not communicate. Thanks to Bob Metcalfe’s Ethernet technology, the computers in Bosack’s lab could talk to one another via a local area network. But Lerner’s business school lab
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, and the internet more generally, turbocharged this phenomenon. Again, Doerr grasped this better than most others. As well as working at Intel, he had known Bob Metcalfe, so he understood that Metcalfe’s law was even more explosive than Moore’s law. Rather than merely doubling in power every two years, as
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for building an audience online; he was part geek, part marketing guru. After Yang wowed one gathering in June 1995, no less a figure than Bob Metcalfe turned to his neighbor. “This is going to be the first great Internet brand,” he pronounced confidently.[13] The dirty secret was that Yahoo had
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multiple sources and then verified in an email exchange with Metcalfe. Metcalfe, email to the author, April 2, 2019. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 22 Robert Metcalfe, “Oral History of Robert Metcalfe,” interview by Len Shustek, Computer History Museum, Nov. 29, 2006, archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Metcalfe_Robert_1/Metcalfe_Robert_1
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author, Sept. 13, 2018. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 70 For a lucid analysis of the relationship between Metcalfe’s law and Moore’s law, see Bob Metcalfe, “Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks,” VC Mike’s Blog, Aug. 18, 2006, vcmike.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/metcalfe
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. 1977 Dick Kramlich and two East Coast partners establish New Enterprise Associates. 1980 Apple and Genentech stage dramatically successful IPOs, anticipating later tech euphoria. 1981 Bob Metcalfe strives to raise venture finance on the East Coast but ends up with West Coast backers, a testimony to the strength of Valley venture capitalists
Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
by Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson · 30 May 2016 · 324pp · 89,875 words
to each individual user as more people join its network (see Figure 7.1). Metcalfe’s Law, named after one of the inventors of Ethernet, Robert Metcalfe, suggested that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users in a system (network value = n2). Figure
Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets
by David J. Leinweber · 31 Dec 2008 · 402pp · 110,972 words
article in the issue, by Andy Lo, “The Adaptive Market Hypothesis,” is an excellent in-depth discussion of the modern view of market efficiency. 2. Robert Metcalfe is the inventor of Ethernet (the ubiquitous wiring of the Internet), and the founder of 3Com. His law was demonstrated first with telephones and fax
The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie · 6 May 2019 · 328pp · 84,682 words
network by the number of other existing users (nodes) already connected. Today, we refer to the network dynamic described here as Metcalfe’s law, after Robert Metcalfe, the primary inventor of the Ethernet local networking technology during the early 1970s. Metcalfe argued that the value of a communications network was the same
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