The Future of Actually Having an Idea

"The choice Lawrence Lessig presents is not between progress and the status quo. It is between progress and a new Dark Ages, in which our capacity to create is confined by an architecture of control and a society more perfectly monitored and filtered than any before in history. Important avenues of thought and free expression will increasingly be closed off. The door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology makes an extraordinary future possible."

This is one of the final paragraphs dedicated to the summary of Lawrence Lessig's book The Future of Ideas, a book that I hope I will never read.

Has he not just advertised his book on the Internet? Has he not posted excerpts from that book on the Internet? Has he not linked to his own website from the site dedicated to his own book? On his website, does he not allow users to blog their free thoughts (he would have to, based on his preaching)? And are you, my faithful readers, not reading this rant on my own blog that I created using free Internet publishing software that is currently available to anyone with access to a computer?

My point is this - what does he want from society that he is unable to do now?