The author lost me very early on by making claims about inevitability. Things like the "global village of free information" are hardly inevitable - I believe it's a lot more fragile than people think. "Free" is under continual attack from IP monopolists, and "information" is under rising attack from noise injection. The easiest way to take facts away from people is to drown them in bad information.

"Global village" is under attack as well, from a rising desire for closed-nationalist societies.