This 9.39 minute SEEDmagazine.com video is a conversation between Steven Strogatz and Carlo Ratti about what we might come to know about cities through network science, and related topics. Ratti speculates, for example, on whether people in a city might be separated by two degrees less than in environments with fewer people.
The video is a marvelous introduction to a field of the future of mathematics and science, given by two men in their prime who are top theorists. In future GoldenSwamp writing, I will explore how education is to be altered by network science and the daily more dense human connectivity being caused by the internet in combination with the cascade of mobile internet connectivity.
The main idea of my focus is one I have yet to see elsewhere: the connectivity of knowledge itself within the phenomena. The ideas of mathematics are a network that has thus far only existed in human minds. With density that increases daily, mathematics becomes connected in the internet. The same is true internally with all other academic subjects, and among all academic subjects. All of this is happening in the Golden Swamp of 21st century virtual connectivity.
