Go back and read the part about the new revolutionaries and their post cultural existence. They are less culturally tied to their cousins who mutilate their daughter’s genitals ,”They have no safe place in Arab society, except in the disembodied cyberworld of social networking”.
I liked the idea of the army using the Egyptian facebook crowd to teach communities to read. They don't have to draft them though, it sounds like they could easily hire them.
I also noted with interest the paragraph about Egypt being afraid to raise agricultural output out of fear of throwing millions of farmers out of work. That is the modern delimma of accepting any technological change that replaces large amounts of labor.
If you don't adopt the change, you are left behind. If you do accept the change, you have to deal with the labor dislocation until the labor market can adjust. Still, it is far better to accept the technological changes and provide safety nets for the labor dislocations than to risk becoming an increasingly poor outdated workforce.