Setting the scene - the impact of exponential growth

The second half of the chessboard

Original idea: George Gilder at the Cato-Brookings Institution conference 'Regulation in the Digital Age,' held in Washington D.C. on April 17-18, 1997.

The cost-performance of electronics doubles every 18-24 months

(Moore's Law)

Opto-electronics follow the same path

(Moore's Law operates in telecoms, too)

Cooper's law for wireless

Cooper's Law, (after ArrayComm Chairman, Martin Cooper), states that the number of conversations (voice and data) conducted over a given area, in all of the useful radio spectrum, has doubled every two and a half years for the last 105 years, ever since Marconi discovered radio in 1895

The structure of the economy is changing

Don't confuse WAP with true m-business

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