Networks
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The cybertopians say, much like fax machines and Xerox machines did in the '80s, blogs and social
networks
have radically transformed the economics of protest, so people would inevitably rebel.
Just to give you an example from Iran, we all heard about the Twitter revolution that happened there, but if you look close enough, you'll actually see that many of the
networks
and blogs and Twitter and Facebook were actually operational.
But networks, markets where food is being grown locally.
It's now about connecting to your communities, connecting to your social
networks.
Talent, background, education, freedom, networks, opportunities, wealth, ideas, creativity.
The game industry is developing consoles that are low-energy and that work with the wireless phone
networks
instead of broadband Internet, so that gamers all over the world, particularly in India, China, Brazil, can get online.
I became obsessed with how it might be that we're embedded in these social networks, and how they affect our lives.
So, social
networks
are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous, in fact, that one has to ask what purpose they serve.
Why are we embedded in social
networks?
And so, I came to see these kinds of social
networks
as living things, as living things that we could put under a kind of microscope to study and analyze and understand.
Maybe there are emotional stampedes that ripple through social
networks.
So, this work with emotions, which are so fundamental, then got us to thinking about: Maybe the fundamental causes of human social
networks
are somehow encoded in our genes.
Because human social networks, whenever they are mapped, always kind of look like this: the picture of the network.
Why don't we form human social
networks
that look like a regular lattice?
Well, the striking patterns of human social networks, their ubiquity and their apparent purpose beg questions about whether we evolved to have human social
networks
in the first place, and whether we evolved to form
networks
with a particular structure.
But that's not the case with real
networks.
This is known as transitivity in
networks.
And so some people knit together the
networks
around them, creating a kind of dense web of ties in which they're comfortably embedded.
Well, the argument I'd like to make is that
networks
have value.
New properties emerge because of our embeddedness in social networks, and these properties inhere in the structure of the networks, not just in the individuals within them.
Our experience of the world depends on the actual structure of the
networks
in which we're residing and on all the kinds of things that ripple and flow through the network.
I think we form social
networks
because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs.
So the spread of good and valuable things is required to sustain and nourish social
networks.
Similarly, social
networks
are required for the spread of good and valuable things, like love and kindness and happiness and altruism and ideas.
I think, in fact, that if we realized how valuable social
networks
are, we'd spend a lot more time nourishing them and sustaining them, because I think social
networks
are fundamentally related to goodness.
Networks, we didn't have
networks
at all at the time of the Macintosh's introduction, and that has become the single most salient aspect of how we live with computers.
So it turns out that even when these fish are different species, they are connected within social
networks
which can provide information on when it's safe to eat.
So remarkably, fish social
networks
allow the actions of one to spread to many and could affect entire coral reefs, which feed millions of us and support the global economy for all of us.
Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us.
When you start looking at what actually flows on top of these networks, you get a very different picture.
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