>> The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law” — which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants — becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other<p>I don't quite get this. My understanding is that Metcalfe's law groups 2 people out of n ie nC2 which means every person is talking to every other person.