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Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data

"World of DaaS"

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A History of Network Social Networks

A network of people all, all noodling on the same problem and I think that's a more convincing account of how things happen. Where you can't point to a Hamilton or a Lenin or anyone like that. You can say, James what with the heroic, improver of the steam engine but actually he was just one of a network of people who were all essentially obsessing about the same problem.

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