The answers to Barabasi

Yusuke Umeki

Barabasi: The first link

Q1: The Paul’s success in spreading the Christian is due to use his firsthand knowledge of the social network of the first century’s civilized world from Rome to Jerusalem. In addition, he also used topology effectively to reach and convert as many people as he could.

Q2: Yes, I think that the events like this can be happened. It is because there is more combined and spreading social network by internet to communicate with others and tell them ideas.

Q3: The new kinds of maps made our interconnectivity by shedding light on our weblike universe. The interconnectivity reveals the relationship between people or between companies which have deep communication, even if they are located in distant areas each other.

Q4: The real surprise is that amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution of the complex networks that surround us. I am surprised by this because I think that our society and nature surround us is so complex that we cannot fully explain them.

Q5: The author defines the nature of most scientific approach in the 20th Century is reductionism which is a concept that complexity can be translated by simple words. The problem along with the approach is that people cannot explain complex things easily because nature is not simple structure and the components in nature function in many different ways.

Q6: The author states that the new view will be a web-based view of nature, society, and business. My view is not the author’s view. I think that there are some areas which internet have not yet covered.