
6 Cyberpower
and the way that success would benet the whole of society and the economic
stability of a country.
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children,” remarked Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In a similar way we have not
inherited the Internet or cyberspace in general, but are building it for our chil-
dren. We have to be participants, aware that the information society is under
construction, aware that changes are being driven by the commercial logic of
information technologies. This understanding will oblige us to ask ourselves
what we can expect and accept from these technologies and of the criminality ...