> It may be wrong, but it proves that technology can't beat politics and policy. There's definitely a strain of thought which perceives almost everything in so

> It may be wrong, but it proves that technology can't beat politics and policy. There's definitely a strain of thought which perceives almost everything in society as being outcroppings of the progress of technology (however you define that), and especially in the 1990s imagined/expected everything to fall over under the mantle of "information wants to be free" etc. I think you're right that this is an intellectual dead-end. Many of us lived through the 90s hype wave and into now, and have watched things take a complete circle. The Internet didn't transform society into utopia, the real-world dystopia transformed the Internet into a high definition image of itself.