社会学家曼纽尔·卡斯特在世纪之交出版的三卷本巨著《网络社会的崛起》(1999)一书中写道:“‘网络社会’并不是即将出现的一种社会结构,而是唯一的社会结构!这不是未来学,而是‘现在学’:它分析的是正在浮现中的新的社会结构。”卡斯特尝试将正在出现的社会结构,概念化为“网络社会”。未来数十年,互联网和人类社会的融合会到什么程度,是一个令人好 Sociologist Manuel Custer wrote at the turn of the century: “The rise of cyber society” (1999), a three-volume book: “Internet society ” is not an impending social structure But the only social structure! This is not futurology, but ’learning now’: it examines the emerging new social structure. “” Custer attempts to conceptualize the emerging social structure as “ Network Society ”. In the coming decades, the convergence of the Internet and human society will be a good thing