This debate will make better reading for the future if we consider the issues against the background, not only of a forthcoming general election, but of a much more serious matter - the Crisis of Representative Democracy, not only in Britain but throughout the western world.

After reviewing the many benefits of information and communication technology, both to the economy of the nation and the individual citizen, he went on to discuss the benefits that technology could bring to the Crisis in Representative Democracy occurring in many countries where we have very low turn-outs in elections.