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One of the most interesting developments in evolutionary thought has been a non-Darwinian model of social evolution. For our purposes here, the important element in this form of thinking is two-fold. Second, communications revolutions represent notable moments of human and social evolution, from the emergence of language, to writing, to alphabet, to the printing press, and, in the last century, the explosion of electronic communications, which have taken us from the telegraph through radio, television, telephone, and into cyberspace. As we know from so many other revolutions in communications, such moments entail both losses and gain. Among the most important elements of a lost paradise that comes with every new communications breakthrough is loss of a sense of control.