For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.

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.

Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

Creation exists only in regard to destruction. Creation is against destruction.

Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the ground invasion in Kosovo possible.