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

— Manuel Castells The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001)

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The Internet is, above all else, a cultural creation.

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Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations.

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