At 10:00 on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, military experts, media theorists, net activists, scientists and journalists enter a room in the Brucknerhaus in Linz. Ars Electronica, the annual festival for Art, Technology and Society, has invited them to take positions for the next two days on the battlefield of the information war. Whether things at the symposium actually came down to a confrontation, I do not know. I was not there. But I can say that the word 'war' can be taken literally. The people in Linz really meant it: one-quarter of the speakers was directly involved in the national defence policy and Ars Electronica's InfoWar website. http://www.aec.at/infowar/NETSYMPOSIUM/links.html links to the Pentagon, InfoSecurity News, the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, and the Air Power Journal.