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Metcalfe’s Law, Applied to “Cancel Culture”
Metcalfe’s Law used to Clarify the Causes and Effects of Cancel Culture.
Metcalfe’s Law provides a simple method of estimating network values.
It has been validated against actual data.
A network most formally means a physical communications network.
But the same basic principles also apply to informal networks, including word of mouth, and all permutations and combinations of physical and person-to-person networks.
“Value” is defined as that which is desirable and useful to humanity. This has nothing to do with the profitability of a network, and is not always reflected by the capital value of the network.
The basic premise of Metcalfe’s law is that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users in it.
We know there are several billion internet users in the world.
Those users squared, gives us a number with eighteen zeros.
So by Metcalfe’s law, before taking into account the constant of proportionality, the internet is probably the most valuable tool ever known by humanity.
Metcalfe’s constant of proportionality, known as the “Utility” co-efficient, is related to…
