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In 1996 the usually sober minded political scientist Manuel Castells, wrote about the revolution in popular networked computing in momentous terms. 'We are witnessing', he declared 'the formation of a hypertext and a meta-language which for the first time in history, integrate into the same system the written, oral and audiovisual modalities of human communication The human spirit reunites its dimensions in a new interaction between the two sides of the brain, machines and social contexts. For all the science fiction ideology and commercial hype surrounding the so-called information superhighway we can hardly underestimate its significance'.