data - our DNA, our wedding photos, our hopeful voice mails and most essential knowledge, our small savings against disaster. In its speed and its depth, in its increasingly comprehensive grasp of each of us and our world, this new network order is at once the most amazing thing we've ever created and the most terrifying. But recall, for a moment, Hillis’s dream for his parallel computer: “The ability to configure the topology of the machine to match the topology of the problem.” What if we really could rewire our thinking, our networks and politics and economics to match the problems we face now? Finally, with the Seventh Sense kicking alive in each of us, we can at least see the topological landscape where such a construction might occur. Now we must turn to the exciting question of just how we’d configure it to do our bidding. We've covered a lot so far; perhaps it is worth a glance back. First, we’ve come to see how networks really operate, the way in which they breed a lively connected skein that concentrates and distributes power. These systems are, as a result of their very design, plucking apart many of our old structures and ideas. Recall my dad, the doctor, ripped one direction by millions of disease advice websites (distribution) and in the other by massive diagnostic databases (concentration). This pulling process creates too, as we saw: Billion-user firms (and billion dollar fortunes) bred with breathtaking speed. Drones, derivatives, waves of migrants torn from their states but plugged into technological tapestries - all of these are products of network power. Connection, we learned, changes the nature of any object. You. Me. Money. Terrorists. Pretty much anything. And because there is a lot more of the world that has not yet been fully connected, it’s easy to see that we live in a revolutionary age. Second, we learned that the world of networks is complex. It’s made up of many complicated pieces, but complexity is something entirely different: It’s t