Politics becomes a horse race, and a tragicomedy motivated by greed, backstage manoeuvres, betrayals, and, often, sex and violence – a genre increasi… - Manuel Castells

The fundamental digital divide is no measured by the number of connections to the Internet, but by the consequences of both connection and lack of connection.

"Urban problems" are increasingly becoming a political issue as the socialization of the means of production is accompanied by the increasing socialization of the means of consumption or, if one prefers, from the moment collective facilities begin to play a strategic role in the structure and rhythms of everyday life.

the Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age: the network.