Since the world sometimes divides between technological optimists and technological pessimists, we asked him whether he thought of information and communication technology as essentially benign, capable of leading us in fact to a utopia. Freedom and organization can be reconciled. Cooperation can be by consent. New technology contains the power to forge a new kind of brotherhood, an equal dignity among people who choose freely to collaborate amongst themselves. For the first time in history, it is possible to have brotherhood without Big Brother.
Technology is neither inherently good nor inherently evil, it's just powerful.
With that said, computers and telephones are evolving today in a way that decentralizes and disperses authority, without leaving people in anarchistic isolation. I view that tendency as benign. Although Peter Huber's 1994 turns George Orwell's 1984 upside-down, Huber has enormous respect for Orwell and has read everything Orwell ever wrote. His best is 1984. No one who has actually read Orwell can go a week without remembering him in one context or another.