TITLE:
From Early Trade and Communication Networks to the Internet, the Internet of Things and the Global Intelligent Machine (GIM)
AUTHORS:
Teun Koetsier
KEYWORDS:
History of Networks, Global Intelligent Machine
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.8 No.1,
February
1,
2019
ABSTRACT:
The present paper offers a sketch of the history of
networks from the Stone Age until the present. I argue that man is a creator of
networks, a homo reticulorum. Over
the course of time more and more networks were created and they have become
increasingly technologized. It seems inevitable that they will all be
incorporated in the successor of the Internet of Things, the Global Intelligent
Machine (GIM).