{"id":2074,"date":"2003-08-16T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T10:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2003-08-16T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T10:33:34","slug":"power-outages-and-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/power-outages-and-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Outages and Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barabasi, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0738206679\/qid=1061054822\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/002-9890050-3893623?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">Linked<\/a>, has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/08\/16\/opinion\/16BARA.html\">article at the NYTimes<\/a> on the recent power outages and how their severity is due mostly to our interconnectedness.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The magnitude of the blackout is rooted in an often ignored aspect of our globalized world: vulnerability due to interconnectivity&#8230;With thousands of generators and hundreds of thousands of miles of lines, the network became so interconnected that even on a normal day a single perturbance can be detected thousands of miles away&#8230;This occasionally leads to a cascading failure &#8212; a series of lines becomes overburdened and malfunctions in a short period of time&#8230;Cascading failures are common in most complex networks&#8230;Cascading failures are occasionally our ally, however&#8230;doctors and researchers hope to induce cascading failures to kill cancer cells.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of power blackouts, economic crises and terrorism can easily be limited or even eliminated if we are willing to cut the links&#8230;But severing the ties would also cripple the network&#8230;While celebrating that everybody on earth is only six handshakes from us, we need to accept that so are their problems and vulnerabilities&#8230;Unless we are willing to cut the connections, the only way to change the world is to improve all nodes and links.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barabasi, author of Linked, has an interesting article at the NYTimes on the recent power outages and how their severity is due mostly to our interconnectedness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[161,163,162,79,164,78],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks-2","tag-barabasi","tag-blackout","tag-linked","tag-networks","tag-power-outage","tag-six-degrees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-xs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}