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Afterthought: When a "Law" isn't a Law at all
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Of all the popular ideas of the Internet boom, one of the most dangerously influential was Metcalfe’s law. Simply put, it states that the value of a communications network is proportional to the square of the number of its users, by Bob Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly.
The law is said to be true for any type of communications network, whether it involves telephones, computers, or users of the World Wide Web. It can even compare the value of communities that depend on specific software to work together, such as the community of users of a particular word processor.
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