The Physics of the Web

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The Physics of the Web

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), July 07, 2001

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"One thing is clear. While entirely of human design, the emerging network appears to have more in common with a cell or an ecological system than with a Swiss watch. Many diverse components, each performing a specialized job, contribute to a system that is evolving and changing at an incredible speed. Increasingly, we are realizing that our lack of understanding of the Internet and the Web is not a computer-science question. Rather it is rooted in the absence of a scientific framework to characterize the topology of the network behind it."

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), July 07, 2001.

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