I do have a few tentative observations. If politics can't win the competition for eyeballs in the real world, it's hard to see how it does better in cyberspace. Sure it's easier than ever to get political information online. It's also easier to shop, follow your stocks, do business, play games, and look at dirty pictures. Trying to get political information from the Internet is a little bit like trying to get a drink from a fire hose.
Voting keeps getting easier, but voter turnout keeps going down.
That's been the history of the past 40 years. Elected leaders already know what everyone thinks, all the time. Whatever this will do to our politics has already been done. But we'll survive. Paul Taylor, a former Washington Post political reporter, is founder and executive director of the Alliance for Better Campaigns.