Metcalfe’s law
Thanks to IoE, the Next Decade Looks Positively ‘Nutty’
will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas gets the Internet of Everything (IoE). “Everywhere we go in the world, the things that we come across aren’t intelligent. Like this wall that I’m looking at, it’s just separating the room from the other side. In actuality, that wall should be intelligent.” He goes on to say, “The […]
Internet of Everything: Harnessing an Exponentially More Powerful Internet #IoE [Infographic]
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As we begin the Internet of Everything (IoE) era, more attention is being focused on Metcalfe’s law—a.k.a., the “network effect”—to see if the same rules will apply. Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a network increases proportionately to the square of the number of users. Simply put, networks become exponentially more valuable as the […]
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