Reed's Law

The successor to Moore's Law (microprocessors) & Metcalfe's Law (networks), Reed's Law is key in what Howard Rheingold calls "the next social revolution" - the role played by technical networks - wired or wireless - in fostering the growth of social networks.

I suspect that an understanding of Reed's Law will be important.

Reed's Locus is David Reed's Group Forming Networks Resource Page


Reed's Law - An Interview is included in Reed's Locus, but worth identifying separately. It's one of the first resources I found about Reed's Law, & reports an interview conducted by David Weinberger, probably my favourite guru on online matters.

Reed's Law - Wikipedia's somewhat dry summary!