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 WORLD-INFOSTRUCTURE > VIRTUAL CARTELS
  1. Virtual cartels, introduction
  2. Virtual cartels, oligopolistic structures
  3. Virtual cartels; mergers
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Agostino Ramelli's reading wheel, 1588
Agostino Ramelli designed a "reading wheel" which allowed browsing through a large number of documents without moving from one spot.

Presenting a large number of books, a small library, laid open on lecterns on a kind of ferry-wheel, allowing us to skip chapters and to browse through pages by turning the wheel to bring lectern after lectern before our eyes, thus linking ideas and texts together, Ramelli's reading wheel reminds of today's browsing software used to navigate the World Wide Web.