You’ve probably heard the «six degrees of separation» idea at a party. But do you actually know what it means mathematically?
If everyone on Earth is connected by just six steps, why do some people have vastly more influence in a network than others?
What does the way a virus spreads through a population have in common with the way a rumor spreads through your company?
If the internet, the human brain, and a social network all share the same underlying structure, what does that tell us about how complex systems actually work?
Could the way scientists now map epidemics have been predicted by a simple experiment involving letters and strangers in the 1960s?
For our Watch & Talk sessions, this video sparks discussion around network thinking, scientific modeling, information flow, organizational influence, and systems complexity.
This is one of those ideas that sounds trivial until suddenly it isn’t.
Watch the video here (but it’s always more interesting to talk about it 😉):
