In Portugal, as in many other parts of the world,there is an urgent need for a deep debate on the political impact of the digital revolution. No such debate has yet been seriously began. "Eppure si muove". Politicians' lexicon is now corned of the new Internet-words, political parties show some signs, more or less convincing, of a cyberpassion profusely displayed before the eyes of the press (frequently with the lightenness of child holding a gadget). However, in the transition to the III millenium, the debate on coming of electronic democracies - misleading expression, mother of many misunderstandings - has been treated as the son of as lesser God. Portuguese politicians spent considerable time drafting proposals to reform the political system (without visible results), but it took them only a few seconds to dismiss the issues related to demo-technologies with a lethal label: "too soon,too utopic,too dangerous". On the other hand, ED has been seen by some as redeeming utopia and by other observers as "The Air Conditioned Nightmare", capable of delivering a mortal blow to the political model dominant at world level after the fall of the Berlin wall . The simplistic confrontation between " saviourists" and " apocalyptic ", both with their eyes put in the distant future is worse than useless: it causes multiple perverse effects and should be substituted by a discussion of strategies. Instead of a false consensus on oxymorons ("high tech may be good for democracy", "citizens might be empowered if they had the appropriate tools"...),each political family should define precise views on each of the relevant issues. In Portugal, the alarm caused by the perverse feats of low turnout in the European elections led some opinion makers to mention "electronic vote" as "urgent", vaguely defined though, or, ridiculously,fanning the circulation of "urn-laptops" throughout the beaches of Algarve. But, with one solitary exception, the country lacks a clear definition of programs and initiatives in what comes to ED. Yet, instantaneous communication can indeed propitiate the coming of a digital citizenship without borders,may allow international institutions and Public Administrations to be more transparent and even pave the way to the reinvention of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights with better warranties of old rights, added of new freedoms formerly unthinkable .This "electronic metamorphosis of democracy" is indispensable.