How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root? - Kevin Kelly

The first thing the network economy reforms is our identity.

Everyday we see evidence of biological growth in technological systems. This is one of the marks of the network economy: that biology has taken root in technology. And this is one of the reasons why networks change everything.

Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases exponentially. Adding a few more members can dramatically increase the value of the network.