Laws as in Mathematics and Physics. Statistical Mechanics, chaos theory and that sort.
The book is subtitled "Patterns in the Ecology of Information"
NO lawyers allowed.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/people/huberman/
--- Scot Mcphee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Me, I'm reading Bernardo Huberman's "The Laws of the Web". Highly
> > recommended. It very marginally
> > pertains to "internet banking systems " (because of the term
> > internet :-)).
>
> There are <gasp> LAWS?!
>
> Is this like a business type book or a technical thing. Sounds like a
> business book to me. Personally I find most of that thinking (business-wise)
> is either painfully trite (i.e. obvious) or just the same-old same-old 'new
> economy' spew. I'd be interested to hear a bit more in depth about that
> book.
>
> As an aside in January 1998 after some detailed acquaintance with economic
> and trading theories I said to the broker-dealers at the company; "This
> market is a classic bubble and it will burst inside 18 months" and they
> laughed at me (well, one didn't to his credit he show me theories he had
> developed about the oil price and the timing of the crash), while the rest
> continued to write articles with titles like "DOW AT 36,000?"!!! So you can
> see my distrust of business theories about the internet. Welcome to 1990
> stock market levels, new economy.
>
> regs
> scot.
>
>
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