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title: "Meta-Platform Theory: Cooperative Network of Networks Effects. Scaling Laws for Trans-contextual Value Transfer. Why decentralized platforms will eat centralized platforms"
maintainer: "Samuel M. Smith"
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date: "2019-04-30"
year: 2019
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source_url: "https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/MetaPlatforms_IIW_20190430_5A.pdf"
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# Meta-Platform Theory: Cooperative Network of Networks Effects. Scaling Laws for Trans-contextual Value Transfer. Why decentralized platforms will eat centralized platforms

A 38-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for IIW (Internet Identity Workshop), 2019/04/30, Session 5, on network-effect scaling laws and the argument that cooperative decentralized meta-platforms will displace centralized platforms. It predates KERI and is not about it.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/MetaPlatforms_IIW_20190430_5A.pdf (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).