Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and global surveillance is also the era of the integral accident.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer resides in the extension of territory.

I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies.

Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.