Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody CrusadesPenguin, 31 mag 2011 - 320 pagine The bestselling author of Linked returns with a ground breaking new theory that will enthrall fans of The Tipping Point Can we scientifically predict our future? It's a mystery that has nagged scientists for perhaps thousand of years. Now Albert-László Barabási-the award-winning author of the sleeper hit Linked- explains how the digital age has yielded a massive, previously unavailable data set that proves the daily pattern of human activity isn't random, it's "bursty." We work and fight and play in short flourishes of activity followed by next to nothing. Compellingly illustrated with the account of a bloody medieval crusade in sixteenth-century Transylvania and the modern tale of a contemporary artist hunted by the FBI, Bursts reveals that we are far more predictable than we like to think. |
Sommario
A Pope Is Elected in Rome | 15 |
The Mystery of Random Motion | 21 |
Duel in Belgrade | 37 |
The Future Is Not Yet Searchable | 43 |
Bloody Prophecy | 55 |
Prediction or Prophecy | 61 |
A Crusade at Last | 71 |
Violence Random and Otherwise | 77 |
Trailing the Albatross | 155 |
Villain | 165 |
The Patterns of Human Mobility | 171 |
Revolution Now | 183 |
Predictably Unpredictable | 191 |
A Diversion in Transylvania | 207 |
The Truth about LifeLinear | 213 |
Szekler Against Szekler | 225 |
An Unforeseen Massacre | 91 |
Deadly Quarrels and the Power Laws | 97 |
The Nagylak Battle | 109 |
The Origin of Bursts | 117 |
Accidents Dont Happen to Crucifixes | 129 |
The Man Who Taught Himself to Swim by Reading | 133 |
An Investigation | 147 |
Feeling Sick Is Not a Priority | 229 |
The Final Battles | 243 |
The Third Ear | 251 |
Flesh and Blood | 263 |
Notes | 271 |
Illustrations | 297 |
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