We The Network

Should we stop thinking of ourselves as individuals and ponder our place in networks? It’s a “move from virtual reality – the old 90s idea of the net as a separate, alternative realm – to ‘augmented reality’ (AR), in which ubiquitous computing and mobile wireless networks are used to reconnect us to the real world. One theorist suggests “we should no longer think of ourselves as “fixed, discrete individuals”, but as nodes in a network. ‘I am part of the networks and the networks are part of me. I am visible to Google. I link, therefore I am’.”