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I SHALL ARGUE FOR TWO THESES: I. IN HIS OWN TIME AND PLACE SOCRATES WAS PERCEIVED AS A POLITICAL SUBVERSIVE AND THIS WAS WEIGHTY REASON FOR HIS PROSECUTION AND CONDEMNATION, THOUGH BY NO MEANS THE ONLY REASON: THE FORMAL CHANGES OF DISBELIEVING THE GODS OF THE STATE, INTRODUCING NEW DIVINITIES, AND CORRUPTING THE YOUTH WERE FULLY AS WEIGHTY. II. THIS PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF SOCRATES WAS A MISPERCEPTION: HE HAD NOT BEEN THE CRYPTO-OLIGARCH MANY HAD THOUGHT HE WAS. IF THE AUTHOR HAD AMPLE TIME THE AUTHOR WOULD DIVIDE IT EQUALLY BETWEEN THE TWO THESES, FOR THEY ARE EQUALLY MATERIAL TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCRATES' HISTORICAL RELATION TO HIS NATIVE CITY. SINCE MY TIME IS SHORT THE AUTHOR SHALL DEVOTE BY FAR THE GREATER PART OF IT TO ARGUMENT FOR THE SECOND THESIS, FOR HERE-IN THE ARGUMENT FOR THIS THESIS, NOT IN THE THESIS ITSELF-THE AUTHOR HAVE SOMETHING NEW TO OFFER WHICH CALLS FOR EXTENSIVE ELUCIDATION, FAR MORE THAN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF MY TIME-SCHEDULE. SINCE THE TRUTH OF THIS SECOND THESIS PRESUPPOSES THAT OF THE FIRST, THAT IS WHERE THE AUTHOR MUST BEGIN.

"Suggested reading": p. 79-80. ; "First printing, December, 1939." ; Bibliographical foot-notes. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The road traditionally accommodated traffic but also leisure activities, social activities and even work. However, technology has dynamically entered our lives, enabling us to replicate activities in public that used to be private. It is considered that the lines between public space and private territory, human interaction and human alienation are becoming more and more blurred. The more interaction between digital and physical environments is increasing, the more our cities are changing. This paper intends to explore how urbanisation and spatial hierarchies are redefined by technological transitions. The first part of this research is a literature review, on the studies that concern the interrelation among three key components: people, space and ICT. The second part of this research highlights the proven consequences of technological progress in the shape and structure of the city by studying the evolution and interaction of the urban road and transport technologies (automobiles, highways). This research aims to map the current knowledge concerning the interaction between people, public space and ICT. ; Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. ; peer-reviewed

Road Pricing is a new economic approach of the transport sector, that can be summarized as the internationalization of the external costs of transport. According to the approach, the users of transport modes will have to pay for the cost their activity imposes to the environment and society. This is to be implemented in the urban scale through the electronic urban tolls. The representatives of the road transport branch strongly oppose to Road Pricing, and broad argumentation has been developed in political debate. These representatives consider that road transport sector is already overtaxed, and even put into question the matter of external costs.