*This is quite a good article. Better yet, I agree with lots of it.
*I don't agree with the part about "the" future being wrong. The "utopian" early Internet wasn't any more "utopian" than Facebook is "utopian" today. The early 1990s are two decades past, and a lot of our current problems are the direct result of *successes* of those ideas, not their "failures." In another 20 years we'll look back on an article like this one and say "Why didn't Schneier get the future right?" Nobody can ever get the "future right" in just a bundle of words; it's like writing a manifesto that accurately summarizes all of human history.
*You might say, for instance, that feudal society was wrong, and dead, and long-gone, but lo and behold, when there's an anarchic situation of all against all with increasing levels of power and violence, my goodness, the "feudal" seems to be back in style.
*This too will pass. Morbid though it is.
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-battle-for-power-on-the-internet/280824/
