To have hope and to be careful is, after all, the best strategy to follow in our days. I believe that is possible to take advantage of the new technologies as a multimedia developer in Silicon Valley or any other place in the global village, and to be as close to the raw nature as a fisherman in my village. Surfing the net doesn't substitute surfing or swimming the sea.

To finish, some food for thought by the editors of the book "Digital Delirium" (defined by St. Martin Press as a "manifesto against the right-wing politics cyberlibertarianism"):
"we have not escaped and will never overcome the fatal destiny of the law of reversal... the faster the tech, the slower the speed of thought.. the more accelerated the culture, the slower the speed of social change.. the quicker the digital decomposition, the slower the political reflection... the more apparent the eternal speed, the more real the internal slowness... delirious speed and anxious slowness... a split reality... accelerating digital effects are neutralized by decelerating special human effects.. digital reality spins out of control, human reality slow-burns back to earth.. speed bodies and slow vision... speed flesh and slow bones... speed web and slow riot... the slow mirror of speed". (13)

(1) - Mark Dery, "Fractal flesh", in "Centerpieces";
(2) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 161;
(3) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 161;
(4) - Mark C. Taylor, "Hiding", page 135; (
5) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 169;
(6) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 192;
(7) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 199;
(8) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 175-176;
(9) - www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/utne_community.html
(10) - www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/utne_community.html
(11) - "L'Agoraphilia", revue Quart Mond, n. 163, mars 1997;
(12) - "L'Agoraphilia", revue Quart Mond, n. 163, mars 1997;
(13) - Arthur Kroker/Marilouise Kroker (editors), "Digital Delirium", St. Martin Press, 1997.