Consider this analogy: Before Google and Wikipedia, to find out about some subject, you'd have to find an encyclopedia, journey to its location, and spend time

Consider this analogy: Before Google and Wikipedia, to find out about some subject, you'd have to find an encyclopedia, journey to its location, and spend time paging through it to get info. While that was possible, the price in time and effort was very high compared to an internet search. That same change affects our privacy. Before, a scammer could single you out, look through your information, and visit people to make connections. Today, a scammer in a foreign country can search through millions of public records to find the connection he knows he can exploit every morning, while laying in bed. My point is, more of what happens on planet Earth is determined by ease than possibility. And ease makes new things possible. This fact is especially relevant in terms of computation.