The e-economy cannot function without workers able to navigate, both technically and in terms of content, this deep sea of information, organizing it… - Manuel Castells

"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.

Realpolitik does not disappear in the Information Age. But it remains state-centric, in an era organized around networks, including networks of states.

As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.