Social Network Geometry | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 4 (WiM147)
The "What is Money?" Show
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Positive Feedback in a Social Network Is the Driving Force of Innovations
As you exchange in a social network, that exchange of information increases as you get more and more people. And by producing more, you have this kind of emergent phenomenon of the city. The positive feedback involved in that exchange is the driving force that leads to whatever the emergent phenomenon are. Those emergent form it could be the city itself, where it could be a business that evolves within the city, or it could be, you know, a social riot that takes place, or whatever.
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