New models of connectedness are emerging all around us. In the information era, access becomes more crucial than possession. Who will have access? What will this do to the economy? The Internet can move ideas faster than books; the hypertext of the World Wide Web is teaching us new, creative ways of shaping reality. Virtual community is replacing proximate, spatial community; subjectivity is no longer bounded by the skin and the brain. All of these transformations will have beneficial but destabilizing effects on our social arrangements and structures. To where shall we look for a principle, a motive of accountability?
— Madonna Kolbenschlag, Eastward Toward Eve