Quiz on assigned readings:

• Metcalfe’s Law after 40 Years of Ethernet

• Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks

Topics

The world as a network: Why the Roman, British, and American empires were successful.

Networks and the future: The geopolitical backdrop for the next 100 years.

Teams formed and project topic identified.

“Show and Tell / Current Events”

Assignments

• The Law of the Pack

• Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and the Theory of Optimal Interoperability