Lesson1

1. What elements or factors were critical to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message?
It was his idea of using social network which can propagate effectively.


2. Barabasi asks the question, "Could it happen again?" (p.4), what is your answer?
I think the answer is yes.


3. What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity (p.5)? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
Maps of companies, ecosystem interactions, genes and so on.
I want to see the map of international marriages.

4. What is the 'real surprise' (p.5) that such maps have revealed? Personally, does this surprise you?
Simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution if all the complex networks that surround us.


5. How does the author define the nature of most scientific research in the 20th Century? What is the problem associated with such an approach (p.6-7)?
He said reductionism is the nature of most scientific research.
Pople meet with the hard wall of complexity. Because the components which constitute this world is linked to everything.


6. What does Barabasi predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era (p.7)? What is your view?
I have no idea.