“We can think of knowledge and knowhow as continuous, but since the networks that hold them are not continuous, knowledge and knowhow must be quantized, and not just in theory but also in practice. So the quantization of knowledge and knowhow, which is brought about in part by the cost of links, helps us answer the question of why it is difficult to accumulate increasing volumes of knowledge and knowhow. The answer is that accumulating knowledge and knowhow is difficult because creating the networks required to embody both knowledge and knowhow is difficult.”