Web of Relations

story. The discovery that quantities we had thought of as absolute are in fact relative instead is a theme that runs throughout the history of physics. Beyond physics, relational thinking can be found in all the sciences. In biology, the characteristics of living systems are comprehensible in relation to their environment, formed by other living be

A metropolis shares one key characteristic with the Web: both environments are dense, liquid networks where information easily flows along multiple unpredictable paths. Those interconnections nurture great ideas, because most great ideas come into the world half-baked, more hunch than revelation.