Cybertheorists in general could perhaps be tolerated as harmlessly colourful futurists, were it not that...

*I know it doesn't look that way, but eruptions of this kind are a sign of social health.

*There's going to be lots more of this harrowing-reassessment of the digital-revolution, and one of these days it won't be just a cynical trolling for hits by ragging on pundit big-shots.

http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/internet/2012/12/jeff-jarvis-clay-shirky-jay-rosen-invasion-cyber-hustlers