[Sigia-l] Book Review: Linked - The New Science of Networks

[Jody A. Hankinson]

Sean -
I haven't read the book you described, but Steven Johnson talks about
similar things in his book Emergence. It's a quick read and worth the time
for some one in our line of work.

Book jacket text:
This book is about the mystery of why the whole is sometimes smarter than
the sum of its parts. Emergence is what happens when an interconnected
system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more
intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior. It's a bottom-up model;
rather than being engineered by a general or a master planner, emergence
begins at the ground level.

Interview with Johnson (also author of Interface Culture):
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/11/28/emergence/


Jody A. Hankinson  
   Information Architect ......| Interpreting strategy and processes
e: hank99 at bway.net             | into Internet applications.
t: 917.749.0910  



On 5/20/02 12:54 AM, "Sean Lawrence" <slawrence at lucidvagary.com> wrote:

> I just picked this up and have absorbed a bit of it and I can already tell
> this is an important book representing a growing shift in the Western
> paradigm towards a more molar, interconnected manner of seeing things.
> 
> It discusses how understanding networks can lead to new insights in to all
> realms of study from viruses on the web to social analysis to cellular
> biology.
> 
> I'm sure that a book like this can render some very mind-altering ways we
> can view information and how to work with it.
> 
> Get this book, borrow this book...read it!
> 
> It's very readable and the author, Alberto-Laszlo Barabasi, is quite a
> credible source being a Professor of Physics at Notre Dame.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sean
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