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Ramo’s core thesis is that today’s world of networks and connectivity may be the biggest game-changer of the future, whether the game is business competition, public health, political success, or even life on this planet, to cite just a few examples.Networks enable mind-bending progress–but offer the potential of indescribable chaos in everybody’s personal life and society at large. Just ask Democratic members of the US Congress whose email accounts were systematically hacked recently. According to Ramo, networks profoundly change anything or anyone connected to them. They may affect us when we least expect it.
Source: How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced? – HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School
see also: Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World