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Re: Read what I mean, not what I write :-P (none / 1)

Railways are fundamentally a different kind of network that the internet. The internet is scale-free, railroads are not. So an organisational structure that's adapted to internet reality has a high probability of not being viable when applied to railroads, and vice versa.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 04:40:02 PM EST
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Re: Read what I mean, not what I write :-P (4.00 / 2)

hmmm running the railways as the internet. Packet switching individual carriages? Passengers allowed to debark when the train is re-assembled at the far end?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 05:07:21 PM EST
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Re: Read what I mean, not what I write :-P (none / 1)

My point is that direct - instantaneous "network presence" - connection is leading to an entirely different architecture of generic application.

The enterprise model - legal XML, if you like - is only just beginning to adapt to this.

For physical networks, different rules apply.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Mon Feb 23rd, 2009 at 05:16:10 PM EST
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