“The old sovereign societies worked with simple machines,

levers, pulleys, clocks, but recent disciplinary societies

were equipped with thermodynamic machines’ . . . control societies operate

with a third generation of machines, with information technology and computers.”‘

 

The life that is evolving around us is highly influenced by the Internet. Just like the quote above, societies are currently manipulated by information technology and technology. Just like a community, networked media is operating in a conventional system. It can be understood as a society where rules and legislations are implemented in order to keep it free of riots and chaos. According to Galloway, computers follow a set of rules that keeps them work properly. That government is called protocol. Protocol is considered as the management style, the fundamental organization native to computers in distributed networks. In the past, the suites for protocol were DARPAnet, DNS, UNIX and the latest is TCP/IP. As explained in the reading, the operation of such managing system can be understood as conventional traffic laws:

 

‘Many different combinations of roads are available

to a person driving from point A to point B. However, en route one is

compelled to stop at red lights, stay between the white lines, follow a reasonably

direct path, and so on’.