Lanier seems to be pretty good at identifying some problems with the web (and, if you like, Web 2.0) as it is, but he’s also prone to exaggerating (your point about Twitter being about listening (to those you know) as much posting is a good example of where he raises a straw man), but I’m not sure he has any solutions other than the one you allude to in the post’s title (which I won’t explain any further because, well, it’s the end of the book).

Mind you, it is about the only book I’ve read this year which I feel I really should sit down and review, so there’s something in it. I’m still not sure exactly what that something is, though.