[...] The need to find new strategies for executing corporate and political domination has resulted in a restructuration of capitalism that is characterized by the emergence of transnational, networked spaces in the economic, political, and cultural system and has been mediated by cyberspace as a tool of global coordination and communication.
Na ta način Webster razlikuje med različnimi obdobji kapitalizma: »laissez-faire« kapitalizem v 19. stoletju, kapitalizem sodelovanja v 20. stoletju in informacijski kapitalizem v 21. stoletju (Webster 2006).