Technology Manias: From Railroads to the Internet and Beyond

Mar 18 2010 7:30 pm
Location: 
St. Olaf College, Holland Hall 501

Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota will present a talk, suitable for a general audience, on the subject fo technology manias.  A comparison of the Internet bubble with the British Railway mania of the 1840s provides many tantalizing similarities as well as contrasts.


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