Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose?

in 1969 Clive Barnes, writer and critic, regarding television:

"It is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want" New York Times, December 30, 1969.

In 2006, Yochai Benkler, writer, regarding the internet:

"Enabled by technological change, we are beginning to see a series of economic, social, and cultural adaptations that make possible a radical transformation of how we make the information environment we occupy as autonomous individuals, citizens, and members of cultural and social groups. It seems passe today to speak of 'The Internet revolution.' The Wealth of Networks, 2006