Birth and decline of the global village myth The paper examines some crucial aspects about Internet developing, focussing in
particular on the reappearing risks of technological determinism and of the technological devolution. Discussing the myth of the global village, the thesis ICT will not result in cancelling the organisational structures and in converting reality into a virtual reality, rather in a growing capacities of treating the
processes at distance, in a context of new balance between the global and the local is strongly stressed.