v5: added git and github (thanks @ceejbot), and RSS (thanks @zem42). Taking suggestions for hierarchical/distributed and hierarchical/decentralized.
t Laurie Voss's crowdsourced set of examples of things that have structure & control in the form of the following: - centralized - hierarchical - federated - distributed - decentralized
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Qian, Z.-Y., Yuan, C., Zhou, J., Chen, S.-M., & Nie, S. (2021). Optimal control of complex networks with conformity behavior. ArXiv:2106.10607 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10607
Tann, W. J.-W., Chang, E.-C., & Hooi, B. (2020). SHADOWCAST: Controlling Network Properties to Explain Graph Generation. ArXiv:2006.03774 [Cs, Stat]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03774
Net-COVID Session3A: Human mobility and control measures in the COVID-19 epidemic by Sam Scarpino. (n.d.). Retrieved April 27, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrrGxJT6-iA&feature=youtu.be
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However, as Mark Poster points out, 'the new level of interconnectivity heightens the fragility of the social networks. '·50 The source of control now undermines its execution. For clock time to exist and thus to be measurable and controllable there has to be duration, an interval between two points in time. Without duration there is no before and after, no cause and effect, no stretch of time to be measured. The principles of instantaneity and simultaneity of action across space, as I have shown in chapter 3, are encountered in quantum physics; they have no place in the Newtonian world of causality and bodies in motion, the world chat we as embodied beings inhabit. The control of time that has reached the limit of compression has been shifted into a time world where notions of control are meaningless. More like the realm of myths and mysticism, the electronic world of interchangeable no-where and now-here requires knowledge and modes of being that are alien to the industrial way of life. Other modes of temporal existence, therefore, may hold some viral keys, their 'primitive' understanding of time pointing not ro control but to more appropriate ways of being in the realm of insrantaneity.
Adam argues that control of time is futile in an interconnected network where hyper-compression has effectively rendered duration/intervals of time as unmeasurable.
If temporality cannot be "measured, fixed, regulated or controlled" (see timescapes image), then time cannot be controlled.
Subsequently, we need other approaches to be "in the realm of instantaneity."