Nicht zu groß, nicht zu klein

Das Problem, die passende Größe zu finden

Nicht zu groß, nicht zu klein
Das Problem, die passende Größe zu finden
Haldane
Bettencourt et al.
On Being the Right Size
hmmlargeart, Flickr
"as the human thigh-bone
breaks under about ten times
the human weight, Pope and
Pagan would have broken
their thighs every time they
took a step. This was doubtless
why they were sitting down
in the picture I remember. But
it lessens one’s respect for
Christian and Jack the
Giant Killer"
"A rat is killed,
a man is broken,
a horse splashes."
"for every type of animal there is an optimum size"
tibchris, Flickr
gemeinfrei
Pieter Baert, Flickr
Dan Taylor, Flickr
Barenblatt: "... scaling laws never appear by accident. They always manifest a property of a phenomenon of basic importance ..."
Bettencourt, et al.:  Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace
of life in cities
lineare Skalierung = menschliche Bedürfnisse
sublineare Skalierung = economies of scale (Infrastruktur)
superlineare Skalierung = Innovation, Kreativität, Patente
"Scaling as a tool for revealing underlying dynamics and structure has been instrumental in understanding problems across the entire spectrum of science and technology"
"... social networks play an important role in the diffusion of information and knowledge since they provide the formal connections and informal linkages through which ideas flow among individuals. These knowledge spillovers often occur without the mediation of market mechanisms, transcend the institutional and workplace settings in which individuals operate, and cut across organizational boundaries ..."
Bettencourt, et al.: Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size
social networks
knowledge spillovers
strong and weak ties
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Datenmenge
Personas
Social Media Group
Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://personas.media.mit.edu/
sports
illegal (ha!)
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MTagger
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Open Source ist zwingend notwendig!
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Danny McL, Flickr
aJ GAZMEN  GucciBeaR, Flickr
"These conclusions very likely generalize to other social organizations, such as corporations and businesses, potentially explaining why continuous growth necessitates an accelerating treadmill of dynamical cycles of innovation"
"... social organizations that are driven by economies of scale are destined to eventually stop growing ..."
Dale Askey