RSA ANIMATE: The Power of Networks
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2012
- In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
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Produced and edited by Abi Stephenson, RSA. Animation by Cognitive Media. 
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This is the most amazing thing I have seen today!If you want to stay happy continue learning!
this has got to be the greatest animation i've ever seen. it blows my mind.
'To know a little bit about everything' - I think humanity is moving even beyond that. We know a lot about every area of knowledge or aspect of reality. Especially generations which grew up with a computer and internet.
Just discovering this now,but think its worth recirculating. A talk that explains and offers new understanding/insight surrounding people's difficulty in embrace the fuller impact of the web metaphor as it replaces the tree...similar to galileo expressing that earth not the center of the universe Manuel Lima makes a great case for loosening our attachment to centrality in favor of complexity
Exciting, creative, and important explanation of the current paradigm shift from the "Tree of Life" to the "Web of Life" taking place today. The word needs to get out about this, and become widely understood. Imagine how robustly we will all survive and thrive when we understand this!
The comparison at the end of the mouse's brain to the universe was absolutely incredible and so beautiful. Blew me away. Been waiting so long for another one of these, thank you!
When I look at this and then think about our attempts to 'attribute' success in web analytics, I wince. Our shiny new toys are all clinging up at the tip of an iceberg of motivation.
You are right man! What a huge challange.
Most elegant. Exceptional execution. Simple, understandable, beautiful. Thank you.
I love this animation. So much knowledge packed into a short amount of time.
This is internet gold and the reason I subscribed!
LOVE this. Chaos and complexity theory are heavily involved in studying networks. We should be thinking in terms of these new structures as our technology accelerates. We are able to play with them and understand them more and more through our computer tech. I believe we are emerging out of the ancient "tree hierarchies" our ancestors have lived in since civilization began. Thanks for posting.
Yes! This is the best way to visualize spoken information I have ever seen. It would be awesome if this were to be done for much more things!
"I think there's immense benefits that can come from this networked outlook of the world itself". Covers it quite well.
Thank you for sharing this visual primer on classification systems.
This is utterly fantastic. Well done Matthew Taylor and the RSA!
Excellent video: nicely entertaining, well paced, fun to watch and (most important) very informative. Thanks.
Not just Relevant, but also fully descriptive!!!
I am going to have to watch it a few more times to understand it all. Big thanks to RSA!
A tremendous amount of information crammed into such a short video. Will have to watch it over a few times
It actually made me think about the intertwining of all of life forms, knowledge, history, science, technology etc., and now we have to power to pull it all together through modern technology. I feel that as far as understanding web science and the relationship between all entities and disciplines, we are only at the start of a very exciting and fruitful journey (The industrial revolution was only the start of a more organised society re means of production and the adapted life style)
We watched those videos in my world history class. They are truly amazing!
Good presentation. It then means that communication is equivalent to networking and in a network, the person with the most connections has the most influence. Co-creation is emphasised, negotiation is continuous and productivity is higher.
Highly inspirational and motivational, thank you Manuel!
This is making me think about how out-dated our school system is.. everyone is learning the same thing, everyone needs "common knowledge".. for what? we need people to interact with specialities! - it is those who are highly specialised that comes out with the new ideas and features to our world, those who challenge their specialised knowledge with others' specialised knowledge!. Common knowledge is like the tree, everyone agree's with root and the log, but as you see in the video, everything connects! so be specialised, and share that specialised knowledge with others specialities, and you might just create something.. Not with everyone having the same knowledge and thereby agrees with one another. It might have gotten us to where we are, but we need a different strategy to reach further.. Atleast that is what I believe! :)
Even Deleuze and Guattari emphasize specialization in a Thousand Plateaus on the chapter about the BWO. They clearly state that the most effective changes and transformations take place through a rigorous focus on specific areas and zones. They encourage specialized creativity in a sense.
the problem with too many specialists is if people are too specialized they may not see more abstract and less obviously connections existing between the specialties.
aka collaborate
First I thought it was about computer networks but this is more fascinating.
i really appreciate the work you put into this video presentation. the clip is even suggested for a module i have in systems thinking
You're right to question the idea of universal structure, yet it is useful to look at patterns and structures across disciplines, even as we examine how the analogies break down, to further refine the way our mind and the field of science maps onto complex reality. Doing this visually as well as conceptually is great, I hope we can bridge between pure computer simulations of reality and these formats blending art and philosophy with science.
These videos rock.
Extensive reading assignment: The web of Life - Fritjof Capra
so glad someone else has made that connection between the brain and the universe. I found the actual imaging of the drawn pictures, and noticed the similarities. I am excited that I am not the only one who has noticed this.:]
The final state of the white board is amazing ! You could print posters :)
That was absolutely badass. Watching these videos is an amazing way to kickstart the brain in the morning before work :-)
me enculo!! this is the BOMB, my mind is blown, thank you for giving me this piece of the puzzle! Great things will come soon...
omg. this animation is too good! RSA plz put out more of these
Brilliant! It has helped me immeasurably to present views, which I have always instinctively known to be true, in a far more articulate and structured manner. Thank you!
I had been waiting far too long for this and it delivered.
I was a bit reticent to what the conclusion was gonna be. But it was great! Not only the similarity between the micro and macro giving, a evolutive perspective not always understood and accepted. And of course, in the real world, the true advantage that comes from knowing a little from everything or from many sciences.
Not overwhelming but quite inspiring.
Thanks again RSA and thanks Manuel Lima!
Best thing on the internet.
Also, I'd love to have a panoramic print of this talk to hang on my wall.
MAKE IT SO!
Throughout life we rebuild and establish networks and connections in our brains in different ways so that eventually we consider things similar that have little similarity. For example, a Doctor would have a million items in a list of symptoms but to accurately diagnose, based on epidemiology, and other factors, such as details about their patients, they need to remodel knowledge and build a cognitive map that serves the ultimate purpose. This is our evolutionary advantage.
Complexity made simple, love this.
"the need for a new way of thinking (...) we are almost going back to the renaissance man mentality; that is not about being specialist in one area, you need to know a little bit of everything (...) is really important that we actually make that mental shift" ❤
I love your videos! Thank you for sharing! They are awesome.
I absolutely love these.
Excellent animation, a great learning tool!
Thanks!
Defiantly tunes me in more with the artwork animation!
I so appreciate this! great Job guys
Absolutely inspiring!
A very important perspective. Thank you.
This video is so brilliant!
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I want that finished poster so much!
those drawings are just awesome ;) best ones ive seen from RSA for some reason :)
wow, amazing. while watcing this video it came up to me that rsa helps in all videos by teaching some sort of spacial cognition with the drawings, very interesting, we get smarter in that way too while watching rsa. our brains learn how to draw space and experience designed thinking.
Perfect, as usual
Wow what a great experience.
I love the presentation.
Excellent video.
Been waiting forever for one of these :3 :3
it will be great that this can be published as poster
Amazing ! Thank you for this vidéo !
Recently I've read an interview with a biologist (sorry, can't give a link 'cos it's in Russian) who was explaining that the genetic code of any mammal is about 90% formed by the small parts of various bacteria's genetic code. He was explaining that the evolution is a process of setting network relations which is much more complicated than it was thought before.
truly impressive.
Yes, this is why I subscribed!
Can we forget our existence (trunk) in favor of our "being" (crown), in a connect/disconnect attitude? Is this human? Is our ability to interact with our eco and knowledge "crown", the key for difference among equals? Is knowing what to ask more important than the answer?
I understand this is "just" a new way to represent knowledge... I'm just exploring...
Congratulations Manuel!
I'd say it's more a limit of human cognition. Our challenge as a species is to learn how to comprehend systems that don't easily map into our wet-ware. That takes more than just *illustrating* complex ideas, which intentionally simplifies reality to be comprehensible. The state of discourse on issues like climate change and terrorism reflect our addiction to over-simplifying an issue to understand it, and then forgetting it's just an illustration ... and solving the simplified version!
Everything is a network or a network of networks. Wow this blew my mind and made me think I cannot find a single thing I do or interact with that does not share network similarities - My neural network is overloading.
Quite interesting presentation of how life really is .... meanwhile, it makes God believers more impressed of the marvels of God's creation!!!
Really liked this video, different from what teachers have taught me at school
Search for "Alan Watts - Web of Life". For full lecture, start with "Alan Watts - Web as Mutuality - (Web of Life Lecture Part 1)". He said this shit (and explored it more deeply) well over 50 years ago. Glad people like Manuel are finally catching on.
Its bit fast, but considering he condensed knowledge from milleniums to current day in 9mt is quite commendable, a brain tickler. Summarising that we are in beginning of a new era, the network thinking-a bit of everything,not specialists is my take away message..Very good animation,brilliantly conceived &presented
cos we always ask for the whole board after the video, they actually showed it this time = D
Thanks
The synthesis of trees and networks have been formalized in mathematics in bigraph theory! Check out Robin Milner's "The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents" for the exploration of that space!
finally another animate!
Great animation
this is simple and easy to understand.
Thanks dude.
Hi Olimario,
Thanks very much for the compliment!
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Human, you just made my day! The illustration is amazing and the conference substantial and appealing. Though, I'd love to know what arguments are invalid (untrue) on the commentary, apparently you already took the time investigate.
amazing !!!
I just love these animations combined with great talks! Thank you! But where are the credits for the artists?
I agree. Most religions are built on, or absorve, one or more philosophic principals or schools. That alone makes the study worth. Besides, the impact it have on our society and history is undeniable. Some people say religion is bad philosophy. I don't think I would put it like that myself, but I can see their point.
awesomeous!
Education should no longer be about what I know but what WE know, and how we can use that knowledge to improve the world.
Totally Relevant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have been lucky, because my teacher (sadly only one) aknowledges that this is more crucial information than most of what is told by other teachers. and i feel the same.
excellent job
the flower of life is a great afterpiece to this video :D
James Burke proved all this stuff on his Connections TV show in 1978 how things are interconnected and similarities.
Very creative.
It would be really nice to be able to download the final image and/or buy a poster of it!
Very funning!
you have great videos.
@omfg4all: Excellent comment. The emporer, or network architects, wears no clothes.
Staffor Beer warned us as far as 1973 in his book “Designing Freedom” (or Tyranny) that computers could be gravely misused. Instead of using the computer’s capabilities to amplify control variety or attenuate incoming variety, computers could be used to proliferate the systems variety, therefore rendering impossible any form of individual human control.
nice video....
we are quantum observers of the universe and ourselves
It reminds me of the song by the Beatles
Within and without you ....
Fucking awesome RSA. Great talk, and one of the best animates too cogmedia, good job.
Very beautiful, but what I enjoy most, is seeing the process of it being drawn, which has significantly decreased over time.
Warren Weaver's article was actually named "Science and Complexity", if you are interested.
I like this, a lot!
I wouldn't be surprised if this animator was the architect of my dreams.
How was this done? It's still killing on finding out how they were able to have the artist draw this big piece.
I want to propose to some of my teachers playing this type of videos during classes
I know it's fun and I started to read up on it but not much 'till now.
Well, thanks for your time. I guess, pi and e do contain a good deal more information than perfect randomness, while still being potentially normal (not yet known, obviously), so yeah, that's probably the answer. Strings that define, for instance, transcendental (or maybe irrational is already strong enough) numbers.