Where Davidow has gone since we talked is to locating Internet-type connectivity in the context of other reinforcing feedback loops, including the growth of the automobile, the collapse of East Germany, and the career of Head-On Joe Connolly, who made a career of staging train wrecks before the enthusiastic masses.

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The growth in demand for Windows is therefore self-reinforcing that is, subject to positive feedback.

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Rather than abandon the theory, scientists fell back on the notion that the data jibed with the possibility that rising carbon dioxide levels were reinforcing the warming trend in what's called a positive feedback loop.

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