This view had become widespread among Japanese researchers by the 1930s, but the militaristic government of the time suppressed it, wanting to emphasize a division between the Yamato-e scroll paintings associated with the court, and the prints associated with the sometimes anti-authoritarian merchant class.
Wolfe claims the technology was developed but suppressed because "nobody wanted to believe that human brainpower is … hardwired".
If true, it opens up a worrying development for news organisations covering wars and conflicts: now they could be targeted simply for reporting a side of the story that one party wants suppressed.
The government has denied wanting to suppress online freedom of expression, but it has long voiced concern about the influence of Internet rumors.
But controversially, when the highly critical report into how the CQC handled its inspections at Morecambe was published on Wednesday, the names of those allegedly wanting to suppress that document were redacted, with the CQC arguing it was hamstrung by data protection rules.
And yet, one can't entirely suppress the feeling of wanting to switch places with them, if only for a moment.
Reading it one understands why Prince wants it suppressed.
While advances in technology increase access to information, open lines of communication, and unite like-minded citizens with unprecedented speed, governments wanting to suppress dissent respond by employing violence, surveillance, and intimidation.
There's a difference between suppressing what we want to say and timing it to be most effective.
Turkey invaded in order to counter Greek-Cypriot nationalism in Cyprus, to suppress citizens who wanted to unite politically with Greece, which at the time was ruled by a far-right military junta.
