Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Duncan J. Watts

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age


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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age Duncan J. Watts
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Http://designnotes.info/ Michael Surtees. Norton, 2003) and Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (Princeton University Press, 1999). Six Degrees – The Science of a Connected Age, Norton, 2004. Deschooling Society, Harper and Row, 1976. Milgram had previously postulated that although the world's population is relatively Six Degrees of Separation is a useful book because it illuminates the science behind our daily use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media. I read this book because it received a favourable review in Asimov's (or was it Analog?). Good question, I just added the quote from Douglas Adams to the post after discovering it in the preface of the book Six Degrees, the Science of a Connected Age by Watts. In his 2003 book 'Six Degrees', Duncan Watts expounded the idea of being connected in the digital age, drawing upon the theories of psychologist Stanley Milgram. He is also the author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (W.W. €�CONNECTED: The Power of Six Degrees” is a new BBC documentary that unfolds the science behind the popular trivia game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” whose notion that anyone on the planet can be connected in just six steps of association was supposed to be an urban myth.