"(...) As Geert Lovink has argued, the paradigm of 'independent' media is both out-dated and, in war circumstances, largely irrelevant. As an example of what Lovink terms 'tactical media', ZaMir was always “a delicate coalition, a living experiment, not a recipe”. The evolution of ZaMir into two different kinds of organisation, the non-governmental and the corporate, illustrates the temporary, even liminal, nature of autonomy and the need to make hard choices regarding how to keep creative and innovative voices alive. If the 'techno-hippie' has been followed by the 'techno-technocrat', then, perhaps, the new 'hacktivist' generation will seize the initiative and forge new means of merging the virtual and the real, a new politics of accountability, and new kinds of awareness that another world is possible.(...)"