Archive for October 15th, 2009
Thursday, 15 October 2009 by dbhalling in Uncategorized • 0 Comments
This is an excellent book – up there with Niall Ferguson’s, Ascent of Money. David G. Post, the author, ties the ideas of Thomas Jefferson to the ideas that made the Internet so successful. Post also demonstrates an extensive knowledge of Jefferson, but not to the determent of the story.
Post shows how Jefferson’s mapping of the navigable rivers in Virginia helped him to understand the critical importance of New Orleans and the Mississippi river. The map of the navigable rivers is compared to the connections of the internet. The non-hierarchical nature of the internet avoids a New Orleans type bottleneck.
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