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I would like to argue now that the interpretation of time-space configurations was different in 1972 when Internet with its global networks and economic practice of globalization did not exist. We have yet to find how to translate issues, elaborated upon by the Frankfurters, into the current time space configurations. A variety of perspectives and analyses have been offered by social scientists during the last decade. How to survive in this new landscape as actors and also survive socially as humankind is a question of the utmost importance. We lack methodologies to counteract today’s power structures in fundamental ways precisely because of the new time space configurations that have been made possible because of the digital network technologies. Networked events in the coming era will therefore have to be orchestrated differently. That is why lessons learned from the past decade of early digital culture may make sense, since it may help to identify the next steps.