Social Networking, 1700 to 1750
16 November 2010 at 12:56 pm Peter G. Klein 3 comments
| Peter Klein |
Some cool dataviz, via the NYT. Social networkers analyzed include Newton, Leibniz, Locke, Voltaire, Bentham, Boyle, Smith, etc. But really, how useful is a super-poke that takes a month to arrive?
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gabrielrossman | 18 November 2010 at 10:59 pm
this was a major theme in Stephenson’s Quicksilver
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Peter Klein | 19 November 2010 at 2:26 pm
Gabriel, funny you should mention that. Just this week I finished The System of the World, the final volume of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle trilogy.