Any system that lets users create and maintain groups creates a set of group-forming options that increase exponentially with the number of potential members. And as a function, 2^N dominates N^2 - which means that even if each individual group-forming option is worth much less than an individual pairwise connection,
eventually the total set of group-forming options will have far more option value than the pairwise options. --
DavidReed from an interview with
DavidWeinberger,
http://idm.internet.com/articles/200101/ib_01_31_01a.html
created by
EdwardVielmetti 010419
In other words,
ReedsLaw >>
MetcalfesLaw.
Secretly, the power of the Wiki is in Reed's Law phenomenon, because the
WikiNature allows one to easily form
groups: making a
WikiPage uniting several disparate pages
WikiLinked together. --
MarkJanssen