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by diafygi 3075 days ago
Hmmm, I think it's too early to tell.

After all, we've witnessed move-fast-and-break-things social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit) that had no desire to influence society in a big way get hijacked by state actors to achieve political goals.

We're also witnessing toasters having web servers pre-installed on them with no thought into what happens if the company that pushes patches (if they do at all) goes bankrupt, thus creating vast oceans of botnets that the rest of us now have to deal with.

Again, I think there's a long road ahead of hard lessons when we don't take our own power in software seriously.