Some authors even go further. Opposite to the utopists, the dystopian view stresses the disorienting and alienating effects of the globalization. According to the dystopists, the new media will cause a growing social polarization. They see the commercialization of the new media as a proof of the abuse of this technology. Finally, these critiques also stress that the wealth of information does not necessarily mean that people have more knowledge.
Postman argues that today's media are obsessed with providing more information.
In Technopolis, we are driven to fill our lives with the quest to 'access' information. And to whom will politicians listen when they have to decide about regulations, investments and funding of research, which could have big implications for the future of the use of these technologies. At the moment, we can see different forces, such as large software companies, telecommunication companies, governmental and international organizations and the individual users struggling over issues as standards versus open systems, freedom of speech versus integrity, local versus global, copyrights etceteras. When one is going to do a research on a digital city or a virtual community, the researcher has to choose the level of research and the suitable technique to collect the data. These techniques can be borrowed from various disciplines like sociology, psychology and anthropology.