the.com/connected
being plugged into everything is also being escapable by nothing.
means Joined or linked to something — whether to people, networks, power, or a working internet signal.
from From Latin 'connectere,' to bind together: 'com-' (together) plus 'nectere' (to tie or bind), the same 'nectere' that knots its way into 'annex' and lurks behind 'nexus.' For centuries it meant a literal joining — pipes, ideas, family lines. Only in the modern wired and wireless age did 'connected' swell to mean plugged into the electric hum of the world, and then, almost as a curse, never able to unplug from it.
- six degrees
- Any two humans link through roughly six handshakes
- phantom buzz
- Brains invent phone vibrations that never happened
- undersea cables
- Most global internet rides wires on the ocean floor
- neuron count
- One brain holds trillions of connections, beating any network
interstate highway system — 48,756 miles of roads connecting the united states, authorized 1956
panama canal — 51-mile waterway connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans, opened 1914
trans-siberian railway — 9,289-km rail line connecting moscow to vladivostok, completed 1916
erasmus student exchange — program connecting 4.3 million students across european universities since 1987