Networks always have been, are and will be relevant to human society across the globe. What in the past was just a tribe, or your family, moved into unions during, and after the industrial revolutions.

Nowadays information technology offers citizens, workers, students, women, .... humans in general a new and often unfamiliar infrastructure on which we can create networks with others we have something in common.

Back in the 18th century when the brave men of the back then new United States of America met at courthouses, meetings or for a coffee to discuss, and take action on the future, these were networks (rather small compared to (potential) networks via Facebook which inhibits now over 1 billion people across the globe).

So what is different to today? Not much really, only that the vastness, and speed of the networks growing out of literally nothing is so much different to the past, where face-to-face, and closed personal circles were the networks of changing energy, and power.