Information is endless in cyberspace and creates an abstract need for control of information that will never be satisfied. The direction of technopower in cyberspace is toward greater elaboration of technological tools to more people who have less ability to understand the nature of those tools. Control of the possibilities for life in cyberspace is delivered, through this spiral, to those with expertise in the increasingly complex software and hardware needed to constitute the tools that allow individual users to create lives and societies. The irony of technopower is that greater elaboration of technology is demanded by individuals and appears to them as tools for increased control of information. The continual elaboration of technopower delivers the fabric of life in cyberspace to an elite and is called for by individuals seeking answers to problems of too much or too poorly organised information.
Individuals strive to free themselves in cyberspace with the tools of an informational world.
As a consequence, we have become dedicated to the endless task of forcing information's secrets from cyberspace, of exacting the truest confessions from a shadow. The irony of this deployment is in having us believe that our 'liberation' is in the balance. A recurrent characteristic of imaginaries is that they appear to be on the verge of coming true, they are in a constant state of almost-becoming real. Imaginaries offer hopes and fears that often do not appear as hopes and fears, but as real projects just one or two steps away from completion. Much of the urgency people draw from imaginaries stems from this sense of being nearly but not quite completed, meaning people feel a need to act quickly to either prevent the imagined disaster or bring on the imagined benefit.