Web X.0
Trying to understand this overwhelming phenomenon, which is powerful, vast, and fast. Seeing how it may shape opportunities in business, education, politics, and other fields.
October 29, 2006
Networks
The word “network” is used in different contexts in different domains.In the engineering and technological context, it is used to denote a set of equipment interconnected to deliver a particular functionality. It used in a social context to denote a group of people that collaborate to address shared concerns. Or in neurophenomenology, to denote patterns of neural activity that correlate with specific behaviors.
In all these cases, networks distinguish a unity constituted by a set of interrelated components. However, the disciplines and practices required to design, develop or operate in each of these classes of networks are very different. Very often, especially in a business context, disciplines and practices relevant to a specific class of networks are used to think and act in another type of network, producing significant miscoordination and waste.
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