I think what the article argues is exactly this: there would be less hyper-connected nodes if the nodes would be more locally connected. The spreading of the di

I think what the article argues is exactly this: there would be less hyper-connected nodes if the nodes would be more locally connected. The spreading of the disease would happen much more slowly in this case. This fits in with the theory of scale-free networks. links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_networks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_networks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_separation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_separation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_and_Strogatz_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_and_Strogatz_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93R%C3%A9nyi_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93R%C3%A9nyi_m...