This week’s reading I decided to read Duncan J. Watts’ Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. It was interesting to read how reliant people, in this case Americans were to technology and I would argue even more now.

We have become accustomed to a certain level comfort. Thanks to the electricity grid that we take for granted until there is a black out something as simple as keeping food from spoiling would have been a long arduous process of preservation. The comparison of the electrical grid to the network of the internet is quite accurate as the blackout I have mentioned before doesn’t just affect one peon but a whole area that is why we check if anyone else has power because we know that we are connected. As he continued to explain we are living in a various kinds of networks including who are friends and family are as we affect each other. I guess we are just used to be in a network and this has definitely opened me to different interpretations of the word network other than obvious one attached to the subject’s name. I also apprecated the fact that we were talking about electicity and his surname is Watts.