12 industry disaster scenarios

A phrase from the article virtually leaps out at the reader: "Disaster scenario No. 1: Patent pools accelerate without government opposition."

What? "Government opposition"? What happened to the role of public opposition? When did affairs of state begin to revolve around conflicts between governments and special interests, with the public permanently sidelined as irrelevant?

I'm not objecting to the article having said so, because I think it's true. I'm objecting that the public's role appears to have been eclipsed by the long shadow cast by special interests.