Computer business or monopoly?

Defines one of the principles governing the current transition from the post-industrial to the information society. The computer business is like one big Monopoly game with a global playing board. However, in place of the die and the Community Chest cards, the computer business game uses the scientific approach pioneered by Lanchester, Koopmans and Nobuo Taoka. The new Lanchester strategy is a method for out-guessing the Starbuck coffee-crazed marketers in Seattle. The next time you read about a merger between two fierce competitors in the computer industry, remember the Lanchester strategy and the rules of the game. The winner is the one that ends up with a 73% market share. Using other people´s money to buy companies is perhaps the easiest way. But it all depends on where you want to go-up or down?