The Seed Salon

Steven Strogatz + Carlo Ratti

Strogatz mathematically describes how natural and sociocultural complexity resolves into vast webs of order. Ratti uses technology as a tool to create interactive urban environments. In this video Salon, Strogatz and Ratti discuss whether building and analyzing human networks can help us overcome our poor mathematical understanding of complexity.

Read the print version, first published in Seed 19, November 2008.

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