The inherent Opportunities and Threats for Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age: Anis ur Rahmaan (1999) visualizes differential journey to tertiary civilization by different nations—in terms of timings, ways, and means—and further describes it as a journey of hope and despair—hope for those who are prepared for it; and despair for those who will be caught unaware. However, to bring into display the inherent opportunities and threats of information age, the paper make use of P.W. Newton’s (1997) thought provoking scenario mentioned in the following. The pertinent factors and their attributes in this scenario, which act as opportunity or threat, have been marked by check marks accordingly (table-3):