Its reassuring to find someone totally at home and with some influence in the tech world that understands

1) the social consequences of technical change, their inevitability, and their essential unpredictability.

2) That any distinctions between governmental and corporate power are minor ones, fundamentally arbitrary and artificial, and those distinctions are deliberately exaggerated in order to conceal that fact.

3) That free markets are becoming less effective at regulating economic (hence, social) relationships, and that the nature of those relationships are more and more dictated by business models and the governmental efforts to protect the security and profitability of those models.

4) I was particularly delighted by his characterization of Libertarians: that although they may be technologically aware and progressive, they are social Luddites and wedded to a social model that was essentially feudal in nature. I've always felt that way myself, but I was never able to articulate it so effectively.