John Perry Barlow was a different point of view. The lyricist of the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation defends that "life on the screen" can be a new way of creating bonds between humans, all humans, regardless of the place where they live. "Does virtual community work or not? Should we all go off to Cyberspace or should we resist it as an even more demonic form of symbolic abstraction? Does it supplant the rest of life, black/white. Both/neither. I’m not being equivocal or wishy-washy here. We have to get over our Manichean sense that everything is either good or bad, and the border of Cyberspace seems to me a good place to leave that old set of filters". (9) Even so, Barlow claims that Cyberspace is the place to move into: "we should go to Cyberspace with hope. Groundless hope, like unconditional love, may be the only kind that counts". (10)

The same vision is shared by Michel Serres, one of the most exciting philosophers of our days. "Le fait de la circulation de l'information est une variable principale qui transforme tout. Ne pas preparer ce nouveau monde pour les pauvres serait aveugle et "salaud". Ce serait preparer un monde encore plus cruel que l'actuel." (11) To this French philosopher, the Internet is not a menace to the poor people but it gives them a new hope to improve their lives. "La nouveaute de notre monde est que la personne humaine ne se deplace plus, mais le savoir lui-meme arrive a la personne au moyen de ces reseaux de communication. Et la, quelles que soient les craintes, les probabilites que certains, ou certaines classes, s'approprient ce tresor sont beaucoup plus faibles". (12)   (continua »»)