The biggest impact the Internet has had on society is the compression of time. Nearly everything happens faster today than it did ten years ago. In the past in terms of society, change took years, even decades to occur, much longer than most wanted but none-the-less had to accept. Problem is that we now have generations of people who did not live prior to the Internet and they expect change to happen much, much faster, and they will not accept waiting for decades. The people who do not want fast change, which is probably at least Gen X and older, appear willing to revert to authoritarianism to prevent the change they do not want because they view such change as an infringement on their liberties. #