The world peopled by the characters in Wolf Hall changed irrevocably with the development of the printing press. In this conversation, Ronald Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and a Senior Fellow at Massey College joins colleague Frauke Zeller, Associate Professor of Media and Culture at Ryerson University and Katherine Williams, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto discuss how technologies have precipitated information revolutions and then effected societal change.