In my view, we're better off now than 10-15 years ago. We have developed both software and hardware to do many more incredible things and nobody is suffering f

In my view, we're better off now than 10-15 years ago. We have developed both software and hardware to do many more incredible things and nobody is suffering from human rights issues due to it. Even if some hardware is unfairly locked down, we still have lots of open platforms in both hardware and software and it's still a reasonably free market where if enough people want something, they can acquire it. All I'm offering is a bit of optimism. Things don't necessarily have to go south. Noboey's redefining ownership, it's just a bad apple disabling some hardware. NOTE: you still own whatever hardware you buy. It's just that some hardware sucks and gets disabled by its manufacturer! Many items that we buy have huge defects, many of which are even worse than this! A Ferrari 458 can catch on fire and kill you, for example. It doesn't affect "ownership". I'd make a bet with you if I could that in a few years we'll still be fine and have even more and better hardware and software innovation.