1: What elements or factors were critical to Paul’s success in spreading the Christian message?
A: The high barriers to becoming a Christian and circumcision and the strict food laws.
2: Ba asks the question, ‘could it happen again?’ What is your answer?
A: May be not. However, in a small group, it may happen.
3: What new kinds of maps have been made of our interconnectivity? What kinds of interconnectivity would you like to see mapped?
A: The new kinds of maps are detailed maps of the Internet, maps of companies connected by trade or ownership, maps of interactions between species in ecosystems or maps of genes. Personally I would like to see the maps of myths.
4: What is the ‘real surprise’ that such maps have revealed? Personally does this surprise you?
A: The fact that the diverse maps of human skeletons follow a common blueprint. Amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution of all the complex networks that surround us. Personally feel that the nature of the earth always does unexpected things.
5: How does the author define the nature of most scientific research in the 20th century? What is the problem associated with such an approach?
A: The scientific researches that had been driven by reductionism.
6: What does Ba predict will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era? What is your view?
A: The phenomena uncovered by rapidly unfolding science of networks. It could be exciting because several types of phenomena which have not published are hiding in the world.
