"Perhaps our regimented Facebook selves have made things more vanilla. Perhaps you did stumble down more idiosyncratic paths of knowledge before Wikipedia dominated the top Google search results. But these are the kinds of nostalgic observations that are ridiculous to anyone young. The Web hasn't lost flavor; you've lost flavor."
Interesting review of Lanier's book, but this passage caught my eye. It may be worth looking at Lanier to see if he does make any argument related to the loss of the unanticipated. And while Lanier does have a solution for the economic problem he sees in the web's open structure, he does not have a solution to the culture of Google.
And an interview with Lanier by Aleks Krotoski
