The other day I was watching a commercial for that new Bruce Willis flick, Hostage, which I think looks like your generic cop-rescue movie. But something in the commercial made a connection fire in my head. The announcer’s voice said something about hostages being taken by a “terror cell.” My mind jumped immediately to thinking of cell phones. Then cellular networks. Then terrorist networks. I’m not, of course, trying to suggest that cell phone companies are behind terrorism. I just think it’s weird that we use the same language to describe both. On the one hand, we’re being conditioned to respond favorably to concepts like “reliable networks,” while on the other we’re trained to fear “shadowy networks.” I guess in a way, the ability to “roam” and organize activities on the go is also shared by cell phones and terror cells. Maybe one is the flipside of the other, or maybe there is some greater paradigm being carved, one about how people come together to make things happen.