Less is more

• Autores: Justin Mullins
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2952, 2014, págs. 30-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • According to the emerging science of networks, there are good reasons why some systems perform better in seemingly disadvantageous conditions. It's just a natural property of certain kinds of networks, albeit a paradoxical one. Since the world is increasingly tied together with complex networks, physicists are using the same network-style approach to make all kinds of similarly counter-intuitive predictions about other systems. Their studies show that everything from road, power and wireless networks to food webs and the metabolic systems behind disease demonstrate similar properties. Here, Mullins discusses simplicity as the key on how people can improve everything from transport networks to tackling disease.