ABSTRACT
While the World Wide Web and information technologies (IT) that emerged over the past decade have a transformative impact on global security, neither they nor the expectations that they arouse are unique to our time. In ‘The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication’, Bertolt Brecht argued that
the radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life [. . .] if it knew how to receive as well as transmit, how to let the listener speak as well as hear, how to bring him into a relationship instead of isolating him.
