Information technology does facilitate the distribution of political information. But many things happen in the political process that nobody knows how to automate. Examples include legislative analysis, research, agenda formation, and coalition building. These are, not coincidentally, the primary functions of political intermediaries such as interest groups and political parties, not to mention legislative staffs. The Internet may be able to redistribute these activities geographically, but it will not eliminate them.
Few things are more clearly impossible.
The concept of cyberspace, in other words, is an American social ideal projected onto technology, and the prediction is that the technology will bring about this American version of utopia. A paradigm case of disintermediation is Wal-Mart. Sam Walton realized that people will to drive further to save money, and that information technology can track and predict inventories continually and in detail. They see me as a middleman standing between the students and the material that the students are learning, and they want to cut me out by distributing this material centrally over the Internet. Whether it really happened that way is hard to know.