We are in the middle of it. One day we have got these incredible breakthroughs -- like the young people in Egypt and Tunisia -- and that is obviously a great positive. On the other hand, we have governments and corporations spending billions of dollars to control all of this. The Chinese government has been amazingly successful at shutting stuff down. And business has been working furiously to commercialize all of this -- turning it into just another way to sell beer, or to sell ideas. We really do not know what the end-game will be. The arguments that are really prescient -- Harold Innis' and McLuhan's -- show that all of this has been coming for over half a century. We have known for some time that this is going to change the way that people communicate; however, we do not actually know at this point what the effect will be. It may be as simple as this: that people will feel that they are at sea, and that they therefore have to go into rooms to be together, and to have people give old-fashioned speeches. GB Do you have a view about the character and quality of Canadian political rhetoric? JRS I have read most of Wilfried Laurier's speeches, and he was one of the great speakers of the 20th century. He invented a way of speaking that is really astonishing, because he inherited what, by European standards, should have been a permanent civil war among Protestants, Catholics,