Speaking of networks check out this cool tool for google.
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
I really like the idea, but after downloading the pluggin, it is slow and crashes my computer. (Of course I have an older "slow" system.)

THat is a cool looking Java app. It reminds me of an old apple os app--hot sauce? Some cyberdog plugin? Can't remember.

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[A]s an intellectual approach, network theory is the latest symptom of a fundamental shift in scientific thinking, away from a focus on individual components — particles and subparticles — and toward a novel conception of the group

Its not Network Theory. What Euler used was Graph Theory. The cool thing these days is Category Theory. Oh yeah. Morphisms, functors, adjoints, natural transformations, cartesian closure, truth as defined in toposes ...