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augusti 25, 2003
Steven Strogatz om det amerikanska strömavbrottet
I How the Blackout Came to Life skriver Steven Strogatz om det amerikanska strömavbrottet.
With so much focus on the Ohio energy firm whose lapses may have triggered the blackout of 2003, it's been hard to remember that the real question is not how it started, but why it spread so far and so fast. Rather than tackle that question head-on, most commentators have reached for the usual metaphors: it was a chain reaction, a cascading failure, a domino effect. All of these are borrowed from the physical sciences. Maybe a better way to look at it is in biological terms.
Boken som nämns i slutet är Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order.
Se även Barabasi om det amerikanska strömavbrottet.
Posted by hakank at augusti 25, 2003 07:10 EM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks