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by Professor G. William Domhoff, UCSC
This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we use these two distributions as power indicators
“Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture — call them the 6 killer apps — that promote wealth, stability and innovation.”
Niall Ferguson on WealthTrack
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Currently with nearly 1/2 billion websites and at a growth rate of nearly 5% per month futurepredictions.com estimates nearly 1 billion active websites by the end of 2012.
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“According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey, till September 2011 around 485,173,671 websites are available on world wide web. There has been an increase of nearly 4.8% over last month. Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. It provides web server and web hosting market-share analysis.” Source >>>>
“The algorithms of Wall Street may be the cyber-equivalent of the 80s yuppie, but unlike their human counterparts, they don’t demand red braces, cigars and champagne. What they want is fast pipes. Spread Networks has been building one such fibre-optic connection, shaving three microseconds off the 825-mile (1327km) trading journey between Chicago and New York.” Source:>>>>
We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.
—Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
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