what strikes me is that in the 70s people were creating lines and thoughts as

processing is gradually evolving from its ori- ginal model, the individual human mind, to networ- king and distributed processing which somehow tend to resemble the human society. Computers have been linked into individual networks to satisfy the needs of individual organizations. Now, networks must be interconnected to cater to inter-organizational relationships. (zimmermann, cien, design principles for network interconnection, '79)

while nowadays they want to mirror the computer model back on human. what an evolution! if you call that social i get scab.