The Spreading Rate
6 min readFeb 9, 2021
What disease tells us about how humans connect for good and ill
It is six years since I first began to write and talk about Social Health: how we connect in the digital age of complexity, and how we can stay human in the machine age.
I wanted to show that the way humans connect to each other resembles the way nature’s networks operate, with disease a useful if painful illustration of the strengths and…