Quote from: cypherdoc on April 01, 2013, 06:13:20 PM

Quote from: waspoza on April 01, 2013, 05:45:40 PM

Paul Krugman:

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The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"--which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants--becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/www.redherring.com/mag/issue55/economics.html

nice! when did he write that? i don't see a date.

June 1998 I think.