The Almost Totally Interconnected Universe (9/18)

9/18/2022

A network is a means of which we interact and exchange some form of information with others. It is also a means of which we gather information. I think that the accessibility to information that we are given by networks is astonishing. In the digital age that we live in, networks are essential to the average persons every day life. Being able to have information, not only from multiple different sources, but with multiple different levels of accuracy, is something that has become an integral part of society. Recently, the Queen of England passed away. I am not all that invested in the royal family, and I don’t keep up with them, I found out about the queens death within the minutes of it happening as well as the world.

This is the symbol for interconnectivity.

Above is the symbol of interconnectivity

The ability for trans continental communication has become so normalized. Furthermore, any countries that have yet to catch up to the digital age of today is seemingly not recognized at all, they’re “inconsequential” and irrelevant simply because of the fact that they are not able to continuously share and exchange or receive the information of the world in the way that has now become the only way imaginable. I also think that it is phenomenal the rate at which networks have integrated themselves into the lives of the majority of the population. My mother who is 52 years old relies on her computer and her cell phone to keep up with her business. She wasn’t even introduced to computers until she was in college writing her dissertation, and now it is one of her primary weekday accessories. Companies like Apple, Inc. and Microsoft have made billions of dollars off of the singular concept of having a machine that through networks will allow you to know anything, communicate with anyone, and see everything you want within seconds. Without networks, the idea that the world is such a small place would be obliterated in seconds. That concept only exists because we are so privy to happenings all around the world through the media and nothing else.

SOURCES:

https://www.dreamstime.com/celtic-knot-symbol-eternity-interconnection-all-things-vector-sign-luck-infinite-love-tattoo-logo-jewelry-infinity-image137352485

https://www.britannica.com/topic/media-convergence