Technologies are not neutral. The Internet is revolutionary, but not Utopian. Government has an important role to play on the electronic frontier. Information is not knowledge. Wiring the schools will not save them.
Information wants to be protected.
Understanding technology should be an essential component of global citizenship. R.U.Sirus wrote a scathing satire breaking down the different eras of Technoculture declaring Technorealism dead after just one week. Other critics focus less on the points themselves, but rather on the need for such a declaration. But they are not exactly stirring, nor likely to send the masses out into the streets. It isn't clear why such moderate, even tepid, philosophical and political stands require a manifesto in need of fearless co-signers, let alone a conference at Harvard.