While I quite like this post and agree with many of it's points, hasn't this been posted here 2+ times already? And made the front-page each time? We've had th

While I quite like this post and agree with many of it's points, hasn't this been posted here 2+ times already? And made the front-page each time? We've had this discussion about this exact text already. Let's agree or disagree with it and move on. Time will tell if Doctorow is right or not, and we can all feel smug when we're proven right then.