IN a casual discussion inside my research lab one afternoon, I posed this question to my staff and students: what is the connection between the Mamasapano debacle and the color of the cocktail dress that was originally posted in Tumblr? There was a bit of discussion between them before I gave an answer. I will share that thought with our readers at the end of this column.

The speed at which the news of a “mysterious” color-changing dress spread was facilitated by the same natural phenomenon that caused the story in the first place. The Internet is a collection of servers that is interconnected by fast fiber optic cables that transport flashes of light that contains the text, images and multimedia that we all consume in our web browsers, smartphones and other devices.

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