The authors reflect and explore the prevalent approach to the new virtual culture that has been taking shape through the 1990s. By examining and criticizing the various claims of the enhancement of communication and community and the possibility of virtual politics, we point out that technological culture is just another kind of utopian formulations. Communication is a means of promoting social order and control for a long time. Communications technologies are impossible to become a social and political panacea, because the fundamental social problem we faced is not a historical communications deficit. The authors think that the virtual community is the community of interests, only under conditions of virtual existence. It is a retreat from the conflicts and antagonisms of the real world. Virtual politics is thus not politics at all.