I also enjoyed the book. Yes, but a centralized vs. a decentralized model makes a tremendous difference in implications for both actual use of the medium and its copyright implications. Goldstein's superdistribution-type model requires a strong central control.
Future prediction is tricky at best.
It has, but it bears repeating. An excellent article. See also the followup discussion with Mann, Lawrence Lessig, John Perry Barlow, and Mark Stefik.