SynTalk

Are you very well known? Do you live in a ‘small world’? Can connectedness be measured? How did/do books, knowledge, money, voice, & commodities circulate? What is the topological structure of the internet? Is everything connected a network? Do we try to stabilize networks via protocols? Does internet have more ‘filters’ than ‘doors’? What are the effects of media? Is most economic value created via affective infrastructures by measuring & tapping the senses? Are there limits to how large networks can be? Are all large networks hierarchical? Is your memory layered? Does the human brain have hubs? Must local rules always be simple? Why can networks be made to crash (only?) by overloading? Do networks always depend on how they have grown? Do different kinds of networks transform different kinds of information? Is energy management at the heart of network management? What causes climate change? Does everything influence everything? What if the sensational is ‘valuable’ but harmful? How would an ethic of network participation emerge? What is human life supposed to be? Will all our (redundant) bodies be networked? Will the networks become intelligent? How? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from mathematics(Prof. Frank den Hollander, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands), & media studies (Prof. Ravi Sundaram, CSDS, New Delhi). Listen in....