This is nearly impossible as cyberspace is too large, too sophisticated and too interconnected to be dealt with alone without cooperation.

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Economists from the 19th and mid-20th centuries can be forgiven for not anticipating an interconnected digital realm like the Internet with its p2p distributed architecture, but modern economists cannot be.

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And, in the crisis of 2007-8, we learned something else about how modern banks can bring down themselves and the rest of us with them: in an interconnected banking world, it is uncertainty that can be the worst poison.

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So when it became clear that networking with strangers was going to be an integral part of my experience with a game like New Super Mario Bros U, I cursed our interconnected world and tried to steer clear.

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The promise of the Industrial Internet is a more interconnected world that thrives on using information to build stronger and safer products, to be more responsible and sustainable with energy, to make travel more efficient, and to advance healthcare for the good of all.

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