So it was with electricity. Over time radical changes in technology are understood to involve radical changes in the organization of work and society as well. Similarly, computers cannot help most firms very much until they reengineer their work processes to accord with the silicon logic. Chapter One outlines the basis for this revolution and explains why its most natural expression is the dispersion rather than accumulation of information power. Chapter Three examines whether the revolution on the battlefield translates into a commensurate revolution in military organization.
Chapter Four discusses implications for acquisition, research and development.
Chapter Five extends the analysis to the case of low-intensity conflict. Chapter Six attempts a broader assessment of how civilian applications of information technology, the Net, may affect national security. Chapter Seven contrasts the Mesh, and the Net. The Epilogue considers certain reasons why information technology may not translate into the victory of the Small and the Many over the Few and the Large.