There's an interview at Smithsonian.com with Jaron Lanier, VR pioneer who also wrote "You Are Not A Gadget" protesting against the digital revolution. He's got interesting and challenging things to say about "digital culture" and the consequences of the doctrine that information must be free (to which he used to subscribe), and about the way this benefits big corporations at the expense of individual creative workers. If you're curious to hear more from Lanier, try this 2011 interview at The Edge.