Summary:<p>Lessig thinks Declan's criticisms (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601234" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601234</a>) of his old book are mostly fair. Lessig's own position has changed, and if he hadn't been urged to do so, he wouldn't have responded at all.<p>Lessig has been reading libertarian authors over the years and has become more strongly libertarian himself. He even shares the view that "governments as we know them are hopeless."<p>But Lessig recognizes that technology is on a collision course with politics. Technology developed today for commercial ends can easy become a tool of power and force tomorrow (think AT&T rolling over for the Bush administration). So Lessig believes we should pay attention to the technology we are building.