In a couple of my previous posts, I talked about how the technological developments, either Babbage´s Difference Engine or digital computing, seemed to remove some connection between people and their machines. Unlike older mechanical technologies, people couldn´t discover how their computers worked by simply taking them apart and looking at how their parts fit together. Something about the network readings this week struck me as having the opposite effect. While networks like the internet are even less transsparent than computers, there not being any physical component at all, networks as a theory seem to bring the complex world within reach. Euler´s bridge network or networks representing food chains have a simplifying effect, allowing us to comprehend complicated systems where we couldn´t have before. İt seems almost ironic then that people are intimidated by the topic (I suppose I´m making an assumption, but I know I was), since at least in principle networks make the world more accessible.