The computer is the network
Social and political effects
Notes:
The rapidly decreasing cost of computation has enable d the actual processing of information to be spread throughout the networks to the point where it makes sense to say the network is the computer. Access to processing of all things digital has been democratized and decentralized. The question before social thinkers is what effect this will have on the development of social life and whether there are ways to channel the communications and computer revolution to more beneficent ends.