So I read the “Six degrees” reading and I realized half way through that it was written by the same guy who created the experiment in  the “how Kevin Bacon cured cancer” documentary. However, it offered a lot of new insight into the reasons why Watts constructed the experiment. I’m still skeptical about the idea that everyone is connected to everyone else in some way.

As I was reading I kept asking myself “why are we learning about this?” I didn’t take a maths or science subject, so why is this relevant. However, I do understand that to be successful as a blogger, one needs connections and links to others. It reminded me of a reading I had for my Global Political Economy class last week which spoke about the super-elite rich innovators of the world today and how they have created their own network or exclusive community. They make these connections with each other to help benefit each other whilst also competing against one anothers ideas that will one day “change the world”.

So whilst I did get lost a few times within this reading, I do understand the relevance of most of it and that networks can exsist anywhere, whether it be people, a disease or even ideas.