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Centralization is inevitable. Scale-free networks grow hubs through preferential attachment. The hubs are the center(s). Basic network science. Read Albert-Lás
by golemotron 6y ago
Centralization is inevitable. Scale-free networks grow hubs through preferential attachment. The hubs are the center(s). Basic network science.
Read Albert-László Barabási for details.
- sjy 6y agoThanks for the reference. ‘Emergence of scaling in random networks’ (1999) seems like a good starting point, and the author is sharing a copy of the version printed in Science on his website: https://barabasi.com/f/67.pdf https://barabasi.com/f/67.pdf
- boomlinde 6y agoIs it Albert-László Barabási's conclusion that centralization is inevitable?
- golemotron 6y agoThere are different kinds of inevitable. In systems with preferential attachmnent dynamics, hubs grow. You can break them up, but growth (and centralization) is the natural tendency barring any other force. Barabasi doesn't form conclusions on this, he shows the math and articulates the process.
- boomlinde 6y agoI don't know what different kinds of "inevitable" exist, but I take it to mean unavoidable; inescapable. In that sense, that there is a natural tendency barring any other force towards centralization doesn't mean that it's inevitable.