Their classic essay heads the other 24 contributions of the Ars Electronica's Info War anthology. Highly developed countries are extremely sensitive in their entire infrastructure, organization, personnel, and components that collect, process, store, transmit, display, disseminate, and act on information. The deterministic assumption that new information technologies will allow a new species of warriors to target modern industrialised nations at sensitive points is the common denominator of a third of the Ars Electronica authors. Besides the above mentioned critique Ars Electronica meets the challenge of a serious debate on Info War topics well. According to Weiguang, the new pattern of war will be fought in an invisible sphere, will be conducted without a fixed form and without any loss of blood.
Online activists extrapolate from their practical experiences.
Readers more familiar with the topic might have hoped for a more nuanced Info War critique, more bonbons, and less conventional wisdom.