Why democracy
It took about two-and-a-half centuries to get the cultures of copyright, the laws of defamation, the conceptions of intellectual property, that reconciled what was done by the arrival of printing.

New technologies have repeatedly disrupted established cultures of communication. It took about two-and-a-half centuries to get the cultures of copyright, the laws of defamation, the conceptions of intellectual property, that reconciled – to some extent – what was done by the arrival of printing.