Sometime back Forbes had given a good cover story on Networks.
I quote from the article "Human networks are changing the character of the globe. By banding together, people are transforming the immigrant experience–and delivering support and charitable works in imaginative new ways"....
The genesis of networks was with the vision of chain of radio stations connected by WIRE and CHAINED like roads, canals and railways. The INFRASTRUCTURE view of networks is getting old faster than me at least. This is good....
Today NETWORK is my source to order books from Amazon ( Although I have visited Barnes and Noble couple of times in the last month, but did not buy) ...doing my research or as simple as talking to my friends over IP Phone. Markets are based on what I am going to buy, with Amazon giving me recommendations, or Netflix knowing what I like; even Safeway has a list of my most likelihood of weekly groceries. I did not meet Hillary and Obama personally, but did a good amount of research on their perspectives and policies in recent campaign; all through networks,
One way NETWORKS satisfy the human fundamental conditions of getting linked. Digital technology creates new pathways to link humans together separated by geography, economic status, ethnicity, religion or race. They Socialize us more, with creation of Social networks. Life is better connected...
Beyond the fundamental concepts, the multi scale-multifarious manifolds of NETWORKS lead towards the visions like e-Science and Cyberinfrastructures.
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