[jeyoor]

>You could see all of this in a negative light. Run for the hills and disconnect! Reality or nothing!

>I have another idea:

>It's time to stop designing digital services to just be easy to use and start designing them to be understandable, accountable, trusted, and easy to use.

I think the author's triad of adjectives (understandable, accountable, and trusted) is widely applicable. It seems this article is more focused on software safety than political systems.

Following the author's analogy with the industrial revolution, I think the development of safety regulations for industrial workplaces in the US is fascinating. http://eh.net/encyclopedia/history-of-workplace-safety-in-th...

I wonder what safety regulations for software systems would look like.