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Cover Quote: March 1986

The mystery is how clear the intent of the Constitution, so well and strictly enforced in the domain of print, has been so neglected in the electronic revolution. The answer lies partly in the prevailing concerns and historical circumstances from the time of the founding fathers to the world of today; but it lies as much in the failure of Congress and the courts to understand the character of the new technologies. Judges and legislators have tried to fit technological innovations under conventional legal concepts. The errors of understanding by these scientific laymen, though honest, have been mammoth. They have sought to guide toward good purposes technologies they did not comprehend.



- Ithiel de Sola Pool
Technologies of Freedom, 1983
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