Does anyone here remember an article comparing the Industrial Revolution to the internet, and the Gin craze to social media, and, incidentally, Wikipedia–wasted resources because those had become suddenly worth less: adult workforce in the 18th, intellectual in 20th?

I remember it was written in mid 2000s, by one of the public digital intellectuals, one who liked to talk about open innovation: Cory Doctorow, maybe Larry Lessig. I can’t find it, but I swear I’ve read it.