[p2p-research] Is There a "Moore's Law" for Cities? World's Leading Experts, Say "Yes"

[Tomas Rawlings]

> Drawing from insights from research in biology that revealed the
> theoretical underpinnings relating the extraordinary similarity in the
> structure, organization and dynamics of organisms of vastly different
> sizes from cells to ecosystems, the team analyzed a large number of
> urban indicators in the USA, China and several European countries,
> covering measures of economic productivity, innovation, demographics,
> crime, public health, infrastructure and patterns of human behavior.
> They discovered that all these quantities follow simple statistical
> scaling relations with population, predictable changes from small
> cities to the largest megalopolis.
>
>   

A really interesting post - thanks for that.  And I've also come across 
Moore's Law in p2p systems too:  After writing about, not the 'why' of 
new laws aimed at curbing piracy online, but asking about the 'if' - I 
was very interested to read in the current issue of MCV (556) a quote by 
Namco Bandai UK marketing manager David Miller;

"As a publisher, the reflex reaction is to support the [new French 
online piracy] legislation, but do we really still believe that it's 
either realistic or in the best interests of an industry (and a world 
for that matter) going though a genuine revolution?  I think we are 
becoming aware of two uncomfortable truths.  Firstly, the upsurge in the 
infrastructure of piracy, fuelled by Moore's Law, the ubiquity of 
broadband, the proliferation of peer-to-peer and torrents, increasing 
storage and general access and ease of use.  And secondly that 
Generation Y is growing up in a culture that feels differently about 
media consumption.  Is it right to criminalise young people for that?"

http://blog.catbot.org/content/uncomfortable-truths

-- 
Tomas

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