Why Networks Matter (By: Manuel Castells)

Castells feels that networks appear to be the organising form of life, including social life. We know that technology does not form the society that we live in but without certian technologies different things would not have been able to develope, for example Castell uses electricity and the electrical engine. "Networks matter because they are the underlying structure of our lives. And without understanding their logic we cannot change their programmes to harness their flexibility to our hopes, instead of relentlessly adapting ourselves to the instructions received from their unseen codes. Networks are the Matrix." (Castell)