On the whole, many governments now really do try harder, and politics is the art of the possible. But it is correct, too, that the reforms tend to be timid relative to the pace of change in the telecommunications and information sector. It's been said that youth is wasted on the young. Similarly, nobody in the telecommunications world realized in the past how easy the going was, so that he could enjoy it. But these parallelisms of purpose and synchronism of pace are no more with us.
Policy making is vastly more complex than before, and therefore much slower.
Legions of lawyers make a profitable living keeping it that way. But the underlying reality is changing much faster. We are in the midst of a revolution as profound as the Industrial Revolution. It's been said that American government is the attempt to project 18th century political principles for the 21st century, using 19th century tools. This pretty well sums up the dilemma.