> The white-robed wizards of Silicon Valley now ply the black arts of algorithmic witchcraft for power and money. They wanted most of all to be Gandalf, but they became Saruman.

I don't actually recall anyone proclaiming the messiah-ness of these guys and the inevitable social justice juggernaut of Google back then. It was a better search engine. they (justly) got rich off it. If the author had more hope of what "the Internet will mean to Mankind" back then and is dissapointed in what he's got now, perhaps he shoulda jumped in then or even now, and fix it.