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Democracy's Napster moment

The forms of governance that have evolved over 200 years of industrial society are found wanting in the face of the network, just as the business models of the recording industry were swept away by the ease with which the internet could transmit perfect digital copies of compressed music files.

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Democracy's Napster moment
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Peer-to-peer sharing of secrets is now unstoppable
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In the long run, keeping things private will become too expensive
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Technology makes it very cheap to capture, analyze and distribute data
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We live in a transition period: the quality of our info is changing
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Digitization also enables a second pattern: absolute secrety
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