ABSTRACT
Technological innovations such as the Internet also offer opportunities for global communications which present some challenges to the state. But the Internet is, in principle at least, little more than a new means of communications, though it may be considerably more effective than previous systems (and indeed its ‘newness’ might be questioned also) – and with greater potential for growth. But constitutions are concerned with more than merely the regulation of information, and with the interchange of knowledge; they also reflect, to a greater or lesser degree, notions of property and an ethical or moral dimension. Certain new technologies present particularly significant challenges to these underlying conceptual perspectives.
