MIT team finds that the ratio of component atoms is vital to
performance. There are many ways to define power, but Manuel
Castells, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and
Society, defines power as the ability to make people think the
way you want them to think--or to convince those who disagree
that they can't do anything about it. "The battle (for power) is
in the people's minds," said Castells, communication professor
at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of
Southern California, during a March 12 lecture on "Communication
Technology, Media and Power," part of the spring colloquium held
by MIT's Program in Science, Technology and Society. Now,
however, new information technology has shifted the battlefield,
Castells said. Political battles have been traditionally waged
in the "public space" of mass media--television, newspapers and
radio. The emergence of the Internet and mobile informational
technology "has reshaped the public space." Perhaps the most
dramatic example of th