Jan Van Dijk: The Network Society. London: Sage Publications. 2012.

Abstract

New roads are being built at tremendous speed and yet we hardly notice. After all, the countryside is not being cleared by bulldozers and covered with rails, canals or asphalt. These roads are for information and communi- cation. Apparently they are part of an abstract, barely visible reality. We might see them as yet another cable running into our homes. We do not realize that they are making us dependent on yet another technology in our life. We are not only tied to roads, electricity cables, water pipes, gas lines, sewers, post- boxes, telephone wires and cable television, but also to computer networks such as the Internet.