Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control … - Umberto Eco

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A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

Umberto Eco

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes. . . . Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

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