'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

Television can only destroy.