Christopher Burns <meta name="description" content="Christopher Burns is an author and information technology consultant whose work involves an eploration of how new network technologies are changing the ways we live and communicate."> <meta name="keywords" content="Network technology, future networks, internet future, communities, Teilhard de Chardin, thinking together, Vietnam, New Old Age, Puzzles ">

Now in the process of publication, Networks Rising charts the evolution of the network idea from its beginning a hundred years ago in the notebooks of Teilhard de Chardin to the latest technology of deep networks, intelligent avatars, and white-collar robots. The book uses the colorful lives of a dozen computer engineers, philosophers, sociologists, and science fiction writers to animate the core ideas and long term trends. And it concludes with a bold and largely optimistic vision of a more cooperative and bountiful world. Networks create communities, communities learn to care, and caring communities lead to collective intelligence on a global scale, suggesting the new and profoundly more productive species Teilhard dreamed of long ago. Pre-order now