"Telezone" builds on many of the ideas of Ken Goldberg's earlier "Telegarden" (1995) also at the Ars Electronica Center, and allows a community of people to collaboratively create architectonic structures--and by extension social structures--at a distance. In the TeleZone project, the city is a metaphor by which concepts for an Internet society can be compared to present and past experience. Cities developed as geographical conglomerations of common needs and have always served the purpose of creating social networks by way of spatial concentration. At all times they have been the centers of power, capital, knowledge and culture. 20th century cityscapes are determined by industrial machines, the acceleration of traffic, transport and communications systems, and the speeding-up of decision-making and business processes, which is decisive in competition. The digital city - as a model for describing common processes within a global telematic society - does not any longer exist in the form of extensive residential areas, industrial plants and skyscraping office towers but in software programs on computers all over the globe.