Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Open Market Edition)
 

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

by Duncan J. Watts

You may be only six degrees away from Kevin Bacon, but would he let you borrow his car? It depends on the structures within the network that links you. When the power goes out, when we find that a stranger knows someone we know, when dot-com stocks soar in price, networks are evident. In Six Degrees, sociologist Duncan Watts examines networks like these: what they are, how they're being... (read more)

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An important subject and a well written book. What I most enjoyed about the book was Watts' enthusiasm for the subject that flows from start to finish. It felt like a more inclusive discussion of the subject than Barabasi's 'Linked', although both are worth reading.

I was interested to notice, so soon after reading Taleb's 'The Black Swan', the inclusion of many of the same ideas about the inability to predict economic events due to the complex networks.

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