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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Albert Las Barabasi

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foabbot, February 28, 2007


This is a fascinating book. The author is a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame. He writes very well, with a style that makes this book a page-turner. In the Introduction, he gives the example of a brilliant networking guru named Saul, whom we know by his Roman name, Paul, whose life mission was to persecute Christians until he converted to Christianity and became its best salesman. This is not a business text but it should be. It's not a book for math nerds either, although they will appreciate it. The author's goal is to get you to think about networks. Networks have properties and understanding those properties is a challenge. Random network theory is one way. Networks will dominate the new century, says the author. The very fact that I am typing this on the Internet attests to the fact that billions of trivial interactions are going to connect someone with something (the reader with my ideas about this book, then the buyer with the seller of this book, etc.). The threat of terrorism is discussed - and in a way that you usually don't think about it . You will think and rethink this book for a long time - as history unfolds around you.

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