The law of the suppression of radical potential
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The law of the suppression of radical potential is an idea first described by Brian Winston in his book, Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. According to the law, when a communications technology is realised, its growth is suppressed through the constraining influence of already prevailing institutions and other mechanisms.
Winston shows how the law can be used as a model for describing the life cycle of many communications technologies.
