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Network centrism was perfectly matched to the ethos of the dot.com boom, and thus it found a ready audience in the popular culture.
FORBES: Pentagon Buries Networked Warfare Strategy
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Big Bang helped facilitate privatisation, demystifying the share-buying process that many ordinary people had found a stumbling block, thus allowing people to simply walk into their banks and order a parcel of shares.
BBC: Margaret Thatcher: How her changes affected your finances
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Thus, the next Google may be found on a grocery shelf and not at a web address.
FORBES: Startups Are Not All The Growth Engines Of The U.S. Economy (And Why This Matters For Crowdfunding)
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The problem is that brown dwarfs have been discovered orbiting other stars, and it is thought that planets can sometimes be ejected from their natal solar systems as a result of gravitational interactions, and may thus be found drifting in space.
ECONOMIST: Twinkle, twinkle, giant planet
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Just last month, scientists announced they had found a planet very likely to have liquid oceans (and thus the potential for life) 22 light years from the Earth.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Michio Kaku: Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow
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Because there are more DA14s filling interplanetary space than YU55s, a 50-foot asteroid can be found in a smaller volume of space, on average, and thus closer to Earth, than a 150-foot one.
CNN: A meteor and asteroid: 1 in 100 million odds
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While only a quarter of the site has been excavated, mosaics thus far uncovered rival those found in Rome.
CNN: 8 things to know before visiting Libya
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But it is a useful discovery, because such duplication is also found in species such as maize, and it thus makes Arabidopsis an even better model for other things botanical than researchers had previously thought.
ECONOMIST: The Arabidopsis genome