Information technology will force a universal culture on everyone. This technology simultaneously strengthens tribalism and diversity. Tribal forces are powerful, but each of us belongs to multiple tribes. So we'll develop only a thin veneer of universal culture. Information technology creates the need for new laws.
Human nature is immutable.
The angels and the devils of infocollaborators on the good side and infocriminals on the bad side are not in the technology. They are in us. Technology acts as a lens. It'll loosen him up. But I'm less than eager to test Dertouzos's rumored good humor.