Software Is Reorganizing the World * BY BALAJI SRINIVASAN [...] The concept of migrating our lives to the cloud is much more than a picturesque metaphor, and actually amenable to quantitative study. Though the separation between our bodies is still best characterized by thegeographical distance <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance>between points on the surface of the earth, the distance between our minds is increasingly characterized by a completely different metric: thegeodesic distance <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_%28graph_theory%29>, the number of degrees of separation between two nodes in a social network. Importantly, this geodesic distance is just as valid a mathematicalmetric <http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227254468_Distance_in_Graphs/file/9fcfd50e6ecac3272b.pdf>as the geographical. In fact, there are entireconferences <http://socmedvis.swansea.ac.uk/>devoted to cloud cartography, in which research groups fromStanford <http://vis.stanford.edu/jheer/projects/vizster/>toCarnegie Mellon <http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume1/Freeman.html>toMIT <http://dashburst.com/mit-immersion-visual-gmail-personal-networks/>present the firstmaps <http://www.orgnet.com/sna.html>of online social networks --- mapping not nation states but states of mind. [...] continua qui http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/software-is-reorganizing-the-world-and-... buon we