So is the Internet dying or not?

Interesting essay by Andrew Orlowski on Larry Lessig’s increasing pessimism about the Net. Quotes from Thomas Pynchon’s observation (in his Intro to the centenary edition of George Orwell’s 1984) that the Internet is “a development that promises social control on a scale those quaint old 20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches could only dream about”.