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Article: Networking: It's not just for parties anymore: Newly discovered principles show the similarity between networks of all kinds - from the Internet to Al Qaeda.(Features)(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 6, 2002
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Byline: Simson Garfinkel
In this age of the Internet, it seems that we're starting to think of practically everything in terms of networks. There are telephone networks and electrical networks, of course. There are the world's financial networks that move trillions of dollars each day. Microsoft's dominance in computer software is described as proof of the "Network Effect." Biologists use phrases like "protein network" to describe the way that proteins within a cell communicate with one another. We network at parties, trying to hook up with people who are more important than we are. And what discussion of networks would be complete without the Al Qaeda ...