The BBC reports on a speech given by Alec Ross a senior advisor to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. In the speech he said:
‘As power is shifting from hierarchies to citizens and networks of citizens governments tend to feel overwhelmed. They feel over-run by this change. As governments accelerate; as revolutions increasingly make use of connective technologies; as pieces of legislation with massive corporate backing get shot in the head because of citizen-centred networks what you should anticipate is a lashing back from government.’