This article is part of Chapter 11 from the book Time of the Technoculture----From the information society to the virtual life. Kevin Robins and Frank Webster analysed the virtual spaces and the network spaces that have been created in and through new information and communications technologies. They centered their argument around a discussion of William Mitchell's book, City of Bits, which presented all the elements of the modern technocultural vision. Contra Mitchell, Robins and Webster held the opposite view. They did not think virtual spaces have reinvented the human habitat. They regarded the new virtual space as banal and pacified. In contrast, they proposed the argument that the new technologies maycontributed to the depletion of the real resources of social life and experience through the erosion of significant external reality.