MS#85. Webometry: measuring the compexity of the World Wide Web, 1996 World Futures 50 (1997): 785-791. Also Ch. 39, in: Wolfang Hofkirchner, ed., The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1999, pp. 553-560. Subjects: Fractals, web tech Written: August 30, 1996 Abstract. The explosive growth of the WWW may be viewed as the neurogenesis phase in the embryogenesis of a new planetary civilization. To empower this emergent phenomenon with self-reflection, we propose strategies for the visualization of the complexity of the WWW, seen as a neural net. The pointwise fractal dimension of a massive matrix is the basis of our strategy. [HTML] [PDF], 652 KB, 7 pages Last revised by Ralph Abraham