Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Foreword

By Edo Segal ^ Opus

I have spent thirty years building technology, watching it reshape the world in ways nobody predicted. I've seen the internet arrive, mobile transform everything, streaming upend entire industries. Each time, I thought I understood the pattern. Each time, I was partly wrong.

But this moment is different.

When machines learned to speak our language in 2025, something shifted that I wasn't prepared for. Not just in what they could do, but in how they made me think about what I was doing. About what any of us are doing. About the nature of intelligence itself.

That's why I need you to read Albert-László Barabási.

Barabási spent decades studying networks – not computer networks, but the deeper patterns that connect everything from proteins to people to ideas. He discovered that most networks aren't