The whole planet is getting connected, and building vast new communities. The on-line world thinks faster, and thinks different. Smart, fast, and creative, these new communities are a real challenge to old power and old money. And old money, after its War on Drugs, and War on Terror, is now launching its War on the Internet. What is going on, and where will this lead us? Pieter Hintjens, campaigner, writer, and programmer, tells all in this vast, absorbing story of the Digital Revolution.