While reading Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book Nexus, I was struck by his use of the term Distributed Information Network. This refers to networks which have no central focus, in which the loss of one or more nodes makes very little or no difference to the network’s overall operation. A node in this instance can be an individual, a computer, or some othe…
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