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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4ef6de42-d6d6-4b58-a730-4bc209877e0b/FA9A2F22-5267-4E02-B80A-7BF3F913967F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6274" href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6274" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spectrum.ieee.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6274"><P>If any large system of interacting parts tends to
                improve by smooth gradations, then we should expect
                systems of systems, with their larger number of
                components and interactions, to improve even more
                smoothly. By this reasoning, the world economy should
                improve most smoothly of all. The world economy consists
                of the largest number of interacting parts of any
                man-made system, and everyone not stranded on an
                uncharted island contributes to the improvements in all
                those parts by using them. Finally, in each economic era
                the question of whether growth speeds up or slows down
                depends on two competing factors. Deceleration typically
                ensues as innovators exhaust the easy ideas—the
                low-hanging fruit. But acceleration also ensues as the
                economy, by getting larger, enables its members to
                explore an ever-increasing number of innovations. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FA9A2F22-5267-4E02-B80A-7BF3F913967F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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