I disagree. The contours of our world are shaped by the quality of our cybersecurity, to the point that it's the water we swim in and we just don't see it any m

I disagree. The contours of our world are shaped by the quality of our cybersecurity, to the point that it's the water we swim in and we just don't see it any more. Some examples: The last US election was won in large part through highly-targeted influence campaigns run based on stolen data. Not to mention the triggering of Brexit. The influence of the NSA / Russia / Five Eyes / etc on geopolitics hinges on poor cybersecurity. I think it would be silly to assume all of the recent leaks we see come from "inside the building". The entire economics and solution space of what is possible on the internet is shaped by our cybersecurity standards. What would the internet look like if payments and spam were easy instead of hard, or if DDOS was hard instead of easy? I might hazard a guess that this is one factor of many that drives the centralisation of tech into monopolies. A positive externality: The general failure of the tech industry to develop good content protection has enabled widespread software and media piracy. I might suspect this has allowed second and third world countries to uplift faster than otherwise possible (sci-hub anyone?) while also removing a tool of empire from the first world.