At this point, the "founding" implication from the impact of printing seems to be that less regulation is better than more. Those societies that allowed one-to-many communications flourish did relatively better than those that restricted it.

It should be clear that parallels between printing and networked computers are likely to be "soft" and arguable and the implicaitons from those parallels even moreso. This is the page that will attempt to summarize the ongoing dialog on those parallels and their implications. If you have comments on the summary to date, please send them to dewar@rand.org.