I've been working my way through the audiobook version of Albert-László Barabási's book, Linked: The New Science of Networks . Pretty cool stuff, and surprising how recently we have started to understand how complex networks, like the Internet, come to be. Barabasi manages to range his examples from the rise of early Christendom to the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, to understanding how the Internet forms. The discussion is a little dense at times, but overall there are a lot of really interesting concepts. I have read nothing of network theory up until now, so it was a real eye opener, and gives me a new perspective to how the networks that make up our world function.
The OPTE project is working to create visual representations of the Internet. Here is one of their latest images -- looks alive, doesn't it?
http://opte.prolexic.com/maps/
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