The UOC publishes an interview with Manuel Castells that has no waste, or put another way rather is essential to understand what is happening.
There are so many statements that I would point out that this would end in a copy and paste the entire interview, so it's best to go to the original source and spend five minutes.
agree with the idea that if someone can make an effort explaining the "knowledge society? that's Castells. In that sense there who compares it with similar efforts for Max Weber tried another time, Adam Smith or Karl Marx.
In an interview in which he speaks of the Arab riots as a turning point in history, he speculates about whether something could happen in China, compare with the leaders elected May 68 to Poland, talks about the boring concept digital divide, Internet outage compared to a power outage ...
I can not resist quoting a small part:
[...] The roots of the rebellion are exploitation, oppression and humiliation. But the possibility of rebellion without being crushed at once depends on the density and speed of mobilization, and this relates to the capacity created by the technologies that I have conceptualized as mass self. [...]and to recommend his latest book, a passionate billet: Communication and power.
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