in Chapter 10. Competing against and increasingly prevailing over the
scarcity premise is the evolving reality of new and rival communications
technologies, with the consequent implication that each medium is an
element of a media universe composed of functional equivalents.

As the First Amendment approached the end of its second century,
dominant concerns with the press included concentration of ownership
and effects of the media especially upon children. Commencement of a
third constitutional century intimated the prospect of decentralization
and fragmentation of information processing and transmission attrib-
utable to computer networking, desktop publishing, telefacsimile, and
other technological options. Such democratization of the information
marketplace conceivably may accentuate or alleviate concern with the
media's impact. Metamorphosis that is continual, rather than periodic
or occasional, at minimum indicates that society's formulation of media
policy remains no less critical than it was when the First Amendment
itself was composed.

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