ABSTRACT
The global revolution in human interconnectedness goes back at least to the last century. By the turn of the century, we had telegraphy and telephony that started us on the path to a wired world, networked transportation (e.g., railroads) that fundamentally altered how we organized our communities (e.g., Stilgoe, 1985), and office technology that began altering the ways we were able to organize ourselves (Yates, 1989). Throughout the 20th century the pace of innovation and change accelerated, with each generation lauding the next apparent steps toward a better world.
