But the rate of technological progress is accelerating, and sadly we can only expect the gap between policy and technology to get bigger with time. By the time the new generation gets into politics, maybe Internet regulation won't be the hot-button issue; but I'd bet it's going to be something even worse — for a random example, how about the ability to tinker with the genome to make new life-forms. I can't imagine that's going to be unregulated for too long.
