Maybe it's a sign of the times. Maybe it's a sign that I'm old and cynical. Maybe I'm just having a bad day. But what if the IZA is the kind of predictable, "9-11" scale event that "changes everything" - meaning lets the powers-that-be rewrite the rules of the game in a way that (further) empowers them and (further) disempowers the citizenry?

How surprised would we be to hear governments uniting in response to an IZA that the answer is a new, centrally controlled and managed "internet" - because terrorists, the economy, and think of the children?