The Pebble and the Avalanche
How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Disaggregation and Why the Sum of the Parts is Greater Than the Whole
1. Disaggregation: The Driving Force of Revolution
2. Starting Revolutions: What to Take Apart
3. Benefits of Disaggregation: The Revolutionary's Bill of Rights
4. Four Stages to Revolution: Devise, Interface, Accept, Evaluate
Part II. Case Studies: Two Hundred Years of Revolutions
5. From Horses and Buggies to Jet Planes: The Revolution in Manufacturing
6. The Automobile Takes On the Railroads
7. The Internet's Permanent Revolution
Part III. Business Strategies: How to Cope, How to Fail, and How to Predict the Future
8. Interfaces and Standards: The Nuts and Bolts of Modern Civilization
9. Coping with Surprises
10. Marx, Lenin, and Gates: Failed Counterrevolutions
11. The Role of Government
12. Predictions: Three Revolutions in Progress
13. Getting Started, Finishing Touches