Manuel Castells
Known for his extensive work on the information society, networks, and the impact of technology on social organization.
Quotes by Manuel Castells
The power of communication is the power to resist.
The Internet is a global village, but also a global city.
The global economy is a real-time economy.
The network society is a society of creativity and innovation.
The power of the network is the power to innovate.
The Internet is a tool for empowerment, but also a tool for surveillance.
The information age is an age of transformation.
The network society is a society of learning and knowledge.
The power of communication is the power to change the world.
The Internet is a global brain, but also a global nervous system.
Power in the network society is the power to program and to switch.
The network society is a society whose basic social structure is made of networks powered by microelectronics-based information and communication technologies.
The rise of the network society marks the end of the industrial era and the beginning of the information age.
In the information age, space is not a container anymore, but a set of relations.
Globalization is not the end of the nation-state, but its reconfiguration in a networked world.
The Internet is the most important technological revolution since the printing press.
Social movements in the network society are identity-based and project-oriented.
Time has become the space of experience in our globalized world.
The power of flows over the power of places defines the new geography of society.
Communication is the essence of society, and the form of communication determines the structure of society.