Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

John Perry Barlow, 1996

Oh what a difference a quarter-century makes. Such great hopes for the medium, such optimism about the possible, such naivete about the weary giants.