A Networked World (Part 1)

guest post by David Spivak

The problem

The idea thats haunted me, and motivated me, for the past seven years or so came to me while reading a book called The Moment of Complexity: our Emerging Network Culture, by Mark C. Taylor. It was a fascinating book about how our world is becoming increasingly networkedwired up and connectedand that this is leading to a dramatic increase in complexity. Im not sure if it was stated explicitly there, but I got the idea that with the advent of the World W...