[gricardo99]

An incredible, lucid, and beautiful depiction of the burgeoning, inchoate world of cyberspace at the time — voicing an anxiety that echoes even louder today:

   We humans would be liberated into an Elysian condition of permanent leisure. We’d have nothing to do but hang out in our indestructible miracle-fiber jumpsuits and talk philosophy.
  Only it didn’t happen quite like that. The machines did get many of our physical jobs alright, but no one could quite figure out how to pay us   for all that hanging out.

What would John make of what’s unfolded since? Much as he envisioned and embraced, humanity poured its imagination, creativity, toil, and love into cyberspace — only for the machines to feed on it all and usher in a new, all-encompassing level of human obsolescence.

[deepsun]

A good answer: "The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism" [1]

And discussion [2].

[1] https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibe...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952