Regular people are slowly catching up and understanding the consequences of technical stuff. For example, I think for years I struggled to provide concrete exam

Regular people are slowly catching up and understanding the consequences of technical stuff. For example, I think for years I struggled to provide concrete examples when trying to explain why people should care about privacy. Now, unfortunately, it's obvious that we should care about privacy because without, we're essentially provided a blueprint to our brains and how we can be psychologically exploited, e.g. fake news, conspiracy theories, etc... I think these are concepts that before would have seemed liked sci-fi, but after 2020, I think most regular people seem to have an intuitive appreciation for how damaging this can be. It's a shame that it's taken such a tragic schism to allow, but here we are and it's better late than never. Another example would be people probably have a better intuitive understanding for motivations behind decentralized architecture, after seeing people being removed from certain platforms. Note: I'm not saying I'm for or against this in any way, but I am saying that the technological architecture is sort of the lay of the land, in a way that I think people understand better than they used to. And no, I would never in a million years give my password to a repair technician in the past either. Hopefully others now are starting to get a sense for why.