Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print.
This reading begins by speaking about how reliant Americans have been on technology and electricity in the past, using specific examples turning their “hostile” lifestyle into a “cool breeze”. Watts then moves on to explain power stations and power grids, and how these are networks in themselves, describing power stations like a spiders web, and arguably “the most technological feature of the modern world”, using various examples of instances where power stations or power lines have encountered problems or incidents where they haven’t been able to work, or put out of use, resulting in loss of power and other consequences, affecting everyone connected to their system (network).
In a way, nothing could be simpler than a network, stripped to it’s bare bones, a network is nothing more than a collection of objects connected to each other in some fashion.