Teaser Long before “foundation models,” Manuel Castells argued that we live in a network society where power flows through programmable networks and the codes that route communication. Read from today’s AI moment, much of his analysis lands with force—though some parts need updating for a world of centralized model stacks and compute bottlenecks. Methods window … Continue reading Manuel Castells as a Forerunner of AI-Era Sociology: What He Got Right, Partly Right, and What Doesn’t Fit